Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Admiral James Stavridis, USN |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0735220611 |
From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world’s oceans from the admiral’s chair, showing us how the geography of the oceans has shaped the destiny of nations, and how naval power has in a real sense made the world we live in today, and will shape the world we live in tomorrow. Not least, Sea Power is marvelous naval history, giving us fresh insight into great naval engagements from the battles of Salamis and Lepanto through to Trafalgar, the Battle of the Atlantic, and submarine conflicts of the Cold War. It is also a keen-eyed reckoning with the likely sites of our next major naval conflicts, particularly the Arctic Ocean, Eastern Mediterranean, and the South China Sea. Finally, Sea Power steps back to take a holistic view of the plagues to our oceans that are best seen that way, from piracy to pollution. When most of us look at a globe, we focus on the shape of the of the seven continents. Admiral Stavridis sees the shapes of the seven seas. After reading Sea Power, you will too. Not since Alfred Thayer Mahan’s legendary The Influence of Sea Power upon History have we had such a powerful reckoning with this vital subject.
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Explorers |
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Author | : James Haskins |
Publisher | : New York : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780590423960 |
Recounts the life and adventures of the man who was the first in recorded history to sail west across the ocean from Spain, and discovered lands previously unknown to Europeans.
Author | : Layne Meyers |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2022-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1685374158 |
Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Sea By: Layne Meyers Half a millennium has passed since Christopher Columbus reshaped the globe from a three continent, one ocean world to a spherical revolution of a transoceanic movement of cultures, countries, and heritage. A Genoa native with an early interest in sailing, he became one of the most significant figures in all the world. This miraculous story of Christopher Columbus is to be told from his time and perspectives and not through a false narrative of today’s privileges presiding over fact. From Aristotle to Plato providing foresight and sense of direction to Ptolemy and Marco Polo presenting the Heavens and landscapes we can now better understand the motives of his decisions and actions as well as his spiritual ambitions. As a passenger on a Columbus Caravel, you’ll witness first-hand the navigational fortitude that led him away from visibility of the shores and into the uncharted horizon. His attained knowledge of the Atlantic trade winds which propelled him to the new world, seafaring instruments and gauges that Columbus relied upon that showed him direction, speed and latitude of his vessels, and the tactical wit that promoted his tenure of being crowned as “Admiral of the Ocean Sea.”
Author | : Mary Pope Osborne |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836814828 |
Traces the life of the Italian sailor who is most remembered for his voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain.
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ISBN | : 9780812456912 |
Author | : S.G. Gorshkov |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1483285464 |
Admiral Gorshkov has transformed the Soviet fleet into a world sea power for the first time in Russian history. He is Russia's most brilliant naval strategist of all time. He has created the modern Soviet navy. His book examines the main components of sea power among which attention is focused on the naval fleet of the present day, capable of conducting operations and solving strategic tasks in different regions of the world's oceans, together with other branches of the armed forces and independently
Author | : Charles Paul MacKie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982111402 |
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.