Beautiful Beaufort by the Sea
Author | : George G. Trask |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1992-06-01 |
Genre | : Beaufort (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781882943005 |
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Author | : George G. Trask |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1992-06-01 |
Genre | : Beaufort (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781882943005 |
Author | : George Graham Trask |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781882943029 |
Definitive guidebook to one of the most beautiful waterfront towns in America.
Author | : George Graham Trask |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2001-05-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781882943104 |
The must-have guidebook to historic Beaufort, South Carolina.
Author | : George G. Trask |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Beaufort (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781882943074 |
Definitive guidebook to one of the most beautiful waterfront towns in America.
Author | : George Graham Trask |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Beaufort (S.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781882943272 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Federal Writers' Project (S.C.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Beaufort (S.C.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Scott Huler |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307420558 |
“Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859 Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery that writers live for. Written centuries ago, its 110 words launched Huler on a remarkable journey over land and sea into a fascinating world of explorers, mariners, scientists, and writers. After falling in love with what he decided was “the best, clearest, and most vigorous piece of descriptive writing I had ever seen,” Huler went in search of Admiral Francis Beaufort himself: hydrographer to the British Admiralty, man of science, and author—Huler assumed—of the Beaufort Wind Scale. But what Huler discovered is that the scale that carries Beaufort’s name has a long and complex evolution, and to properly understand it he had to keep reaching farther back in history, into the lives and works of figures from Daniel Defoe and Charles Darwin to Captains Bligh, of the Bounty, and Cook, of the Endeavor. As hydrographer to the British Admiralty it was Beaufort’s job to track the information that ships relied on: where to lay anchor, descriptions of ports, information about fortification, religion, and trade. But what came to fascinate Huler most about Beaufort was his obsession for observing things and communicating to others what the world looked like. Huler’s research landed him in one of the most fascinating and rich periods of history, because all around the world in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in a grand, expansive period, modern science was being invented every day. These scientific advancements encompassed not only vast leaps in understanding but also how scientific innovation was expressed and even organized, including such enduring developments as the scale Anders Celsius created to simplify how Gabriel Fahrenheit measured temperature; the French-designed metric system; and the Gregorian calendar adopted by France and Great Britain. To Huler, Beaufort came to embody that passion for scientific observation and categorization; indeed Beaufort became the great scientific networker of his time. It was he, for example, who was tapped to lead the search for a naturalist in the 1830s to accompany the crew of the Beagle; he recommended a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Defining the Wind is a wonderfully readable, often humorous, and always rich story that is ultimately about how we observe the forces of nature and the world around us.
Author | : Joan Rust |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1493186876 |
This is a book of awareness and love. The correspondence between two girlhood friends from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan launched the “anniecat chronicles” project. With thoughts and events to share, they embraced email and bridged the miles and the years between Michigan and South Carolina. A wealth of remembrances, including Campfire Girls, failed romances, class reunions and their 80th birthdays, are recorded with splendid humor and devotion to narrative. Interwoven in the chronicles are the author’s short stories and poetry, her tribute to the beauty of life in the northwoods and to the joy of family.
Author | : Eugene Alvarez |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1514455331 |
The original 1983 manuscript written by Eugene Alvarez, who is the primary author of this book, included the years 15621983. The current and revised manuscript was edited and updated by Leo J. Daugherty III, PhD, in cooperation with the primary author, and covers the years 1997 to 2015, including chapter 6, dealing with recruit training in the 1920s and 1930s, which was a part of his doctoral dissertation at the Ohio State University. Since this work was first completed, Parris Island has undergone numerous changes in buildings, the base layout, and recruit training. The training philosophy has been altered as society demands. Thus, past training situations and methods should be observed as recorded in the chronological approach of the text to present times.