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Author | : Joseph A. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Nautical training-schools |
ISBN | : 9780989939416 |
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Under New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge lies a spit of land dominated by a pentagonal, 19th-century fortress that today houses a school that has trained mariners since the age of sail. Within Fort Schuyler's walls are stories of heroism and mutinies, shipwrecks and desertions. In Four Years Before the Mast, author Joseph A. Williams uses his access to archival materials to tell the tale of that institution known today as SUNY Maritime College.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Annette Brock Davis |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1999-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0888822073 |
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A memoir of Annette Brock Daviss life at sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line.
Author | : Charles Erskine |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Seafaring life |
ISBN | : |
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In 1838, seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world. Here he shares his adventures as a sailor as he traveled to unexplored regions of the world.
Author | : Michael M. Lewis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393048136 |
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Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1429958111 |
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This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Author | : Kevin Starr |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081297753X |
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Author | : John Kerr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-10 |
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