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Author | : Elliot Snow |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780486251776 |
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Firsthand accounts of thrilling adventures on the high seas — of surviving on an uninhabited island, of narrowly escaping capture in the Pacific Islands where Capt. James Cook was killed, encounters with savage natives in the South Seas and more. A vivid picture of life aboard the "tall ships" of a century and more ago.
Author | : Peter Kemp |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Marine painting, European |
ISBN | : 9780714828442 |
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Author | : Andrew Shewan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jean Riverain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Sailing ships |
ISBN | : |
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The story of shipos, sailing, and famous sailors, incorporating information on galleys and galley slaves, clipper ships, whalers, and the wide popularity of present-day sailing.
Author | : Andrew Shewan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
ISBN | : 9781558216662 |
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Author | : Stan Hugill |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493068288 |
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This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Author | : Andrew Shewan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1973-01 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
ISBN | : 9780851770659 |
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Author | : Charles W Domvillefife |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844156958 |
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There are few books that describe accurately life on board sailing ships in the last days of sail, from the 1860s to the First World War; the romantic image conjured up by many who wrote from a safe distance belies the harsh realities which were a sailorman's lot. Domville-Fife, in collecting together the personal stories of seamen while they were still alive, was able to present a truer picture of the tough last days of sail. Long voyages on board nineteenth-century sailing ships were marked by isolation, boredom, and miserable living conditions that taxed the endurance of men already hard pressed by the gruelling and dangerous nature of shipboard work. While some were attracted to a life of adventure most simply went to sea for a living, and a meagre one at that. They experienced neither the excitement of life on the crack clippers of the earlier decades nor the safety of the steamships; they were caught in the limbo of a dying profession where poor pay, discontinuous employment, prolonged isolation from family and physical hardship were the norm. No wonder that murder, mutiny, starvation and shipwreck appear in the memoirs gathered here. Domville-Fife surely did future generations a great service by piecing together this reality. First published in 1938, these memoirs are now available again in this superbly presented new edition with a new selection of stunning photographs and a fascinating introduction on life at sea in the dying world of sail. A wonderful read for all enthusiasts and historians of the merchant service in the days of sail.
Author | : Dorothy Volo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313366047 |
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Based on extensive research into newly discovered documents, this new edition of the popular volume offers an updated look at the daily lives of ordinary citizens caught up in the Civil War. When first published, Daily Life in Civil War America shifted the spotlight from the conflict's military operations and famous leaders to its affect on day-to-day living. Now this popular, groundbreaking work returns in a thoroughly updated new edition, drawing on an expanded range of journals, journalism, diaries, and correspondence to capture the realities of wartime life for soldiers and citizens, slaves and free persons, women and children, on both sides of the conflict. In addition to chapter-by-chapter updating, the edition features new chapters on two important topics: the affects of the war on families, focusing on the absence of men on the home front and the plight of nearly 26,000 children orphaned by the war; and the activities of the Copperheads, anti-Confederate border residents, and other Southern pacifist groups.
Author | : John H. Harland |
Publisher | : Conway |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
Download Seamanship in the Age of Sail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Numerous successful reprints of contemporary works on rigging and seamanship indicate the breadth of interest in the lost art of handling square-rigged ships. Modelmakers, marine painters and enthusiasts need to know not only how the ships were rigged but how much sail was set in each condition of wind and sea, how the various manoeuvres were carried out, and the intricacies of operations like reefing sails or 'catting' an anchor. Contemporary treatises such as Brady's Kedge Anchor in the USA or Darcy Lever's Sheet Anchor in Britain tell only half the story, for they were training manuals intended to be used at sea in conjunction with practical experiences and often only cover officially-condoned practices. This book, on the other hand, is a modern, objective appraisal of the evidence, concerned with the actualities as much as the theory. The author's facility in a remarkable range of languages has allowed him to study virtually every manual published over a period of nearly four centuries. This gives the book a completely international balance and allows the author to describe for the first time the proper historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world.