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Book Synopsis A Sea of Misadventures by : Amy Mitchell-Cook
Download or read book A Sea of Misadventures written by Amy Mitchell-Cook and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters, the book's significance lies in its investigation of how the trauma of shipwreck affected American values and behavior. Through stories of death and devastation, Amy Mitchell-Cook examines issues of hierarchy, race, and gender when the sphere of social action is shrunken to the dimensions of a lifeboat or deserted shore. Rather than debate the veracity of shipwreck tales, Mitchell-Cook provides a cultural and social analysis that places maritime disasters within the broader context of North American society. She answers questions that include who survived and why, how did gender or status affect survival rates, and how did survivors relate their stories to interested but unaffected audiences? Mitchell-Cook observes that, in creating a sense of order out of chaotic events, the narratives reassured audiences that anarchy did not rule the waves, even when desperate survivors resorted to cannibalism. Some of the accounts she studies are legal documents required by insurance companies, while others have been a form of prescriptive literature—guides that taught survivors how to act and be remembered with honor. In essence, shipwreck revealed some of the traits that defined what it meant to be Anglo-American. In an elaboration of some of the themes, Mitchell-Cook compares American narratives with Portuguese narratives to reveal the power of divergent cultural norms to shape so basic an event as a shipwreck.
Book Synopsis A Sea of Misadventures by : Amy Mitchell-Cook
Download or read book A Sea of Misadventures written by Amy Mitchell-Cook and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters, the book s significance lies in its investigation of how the trauma of shipwreck affected American values and behavior. Through stories of death and devastation, Amy Mitchell-Cook examines issues of hierarchy, race, and gender when the sphere of social action is shrunken to the dimensions of a lifeboat or deserted shore. Rather than debate the veracity of shipwreck tales, Mitchell-Cook provides a cultural and social analysis that places maritime disasters within the broader context of North American society. She answers questions that include who survived and why, how did gender or status affect survival rates, and how did survivors relate their stories to interested but unaffected audiences? Mitchell-Cook observes that, in creating a sense of order out of chaotic events, the narratives reassured audiences that anarchy did not rule the waves, even when desperate survivors resorted to cannibalism. Some of the accounts she studies are legal documents required by insurance companies, while others have been a form of prescriptive literature guides that taught survivors how to act and be remembered with honor. In essence, shipwreck revealed some of the traits that defined what it meant to be Anglo-American. In an elaboration of some of the themes, Mitchell-Cook compares American narratives with Portuguese narratives to reveal the power of divergent cultural norms to shape so basic an event as a shipwreck."
Book Synopsis The Sea Is Not Full by : Charles J. Doane
Download or read book The Sea Is Not Full written by Charles J. Doane and published by Seapoint Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea Is Not Full is an eclectic personal sailing narrative that mixes accounts of two dramatic boat abandonments and a cruise up a West African river with practical advice on learning to sail, navigation, heavy weather tactics, and other topics. Also included are philosophical essays on ocean sailing and human evolution and theology, plus profiles of individuals the author has sailed with, including notable sailing personalities like Don Street and Jimmy Cornell.
Book Synopsis Box Wine Sailors by : Amy McCullough
Download or read book Box Wine Sailors written by Amy McCullough and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young couple who quit their jobs and set sail for a year on the ocean with no boating experienceAmy and Jimmie were not sailors and their experience on the seas included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and boating once a week each year. They were middle-class land-lubbers, audacious and in love, and all they wanted was to be together and do something extraordinary. The Box Wine Sailors tells the true story of a couple's ramshackle trip down the coast with all the exulting highs and terrifying lows of sailing a small boat on the Pacific. From sailing on Thanksgiving morning under spectacular bright blue Californian skies just off the Channel Islands as dolphins raced alongside their boat to the terrifying experience of rounding Punta Gorda and hanging on to the mast for dear life. It also tells the story of two very normal people doing what most people only dream of and settling the argument that if you want something bad enough you can make it happen.
Book Synopsis Dick Cheveley. His Adventures and Misadventures by : William Henry Giles Kingston
Download or read book Dick Cheveley. His Adventures and Misadventures written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Maqroll by : Álvaro Mutis
Download or read book The Adventures of Maqroll written by Álvaro Mutis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four novellas featuring Maqroll, an international adventurer. One moment he is smuggling arms for liberation groups, the next digging for gold in the jungles of Peru, nearly getting himself killed by his woman, gone mad. The tale of a man without a country who recognizes no law, but that of fortune. By the author of Maqroll, a Colombian-born Mexican.
Book Synopsis Misadventures in Nature's Paradise by : Graeme Henderson
Download or read book Misadventures in Nature's Paradise written by Graeme Henderson and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a pre-settlement historical account of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in their Indian Ocean context. The project began as a search for clues to locations of two 18th century Dutch shipwrecks, and was expanded into a general account of the early island histories and associated mythological Indian Ocean islands and creatures.
Book Synopsis THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated) by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated) written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 2340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Table of Contents: Novels: Treasure Island Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour I) Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour II) The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Short Stories: Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective The Misadventures of John Nicholson
Book Synopsis The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by : Alvaro Mutis
Download or read book The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll written by Alvaro Mutis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Álvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.
Book Synopsis Island in the Sea of Time by : S. M. Stirling
Download or read book Island in the Sea of Time written by S. M. Stirling and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans.”—George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time.
Download or read book British Autobiographies written by and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Book Synopsis The Cantab, or, A few adventures & misadventures in after life by : Henry John Crickitt Blake
Download or read book The Cantab, or, A few adventures & misadventures in after life written by Henry John Crickitt Blake and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Horatio, Viscount Nelson by : George Arthur Stephen
Download or read book Horatio, Viscount Nelson written by George Arthur Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Adventures and Misadventures of Ace the Pilot by : Butch Childers
Download or read book The Adventures and Misadventures of Ace the Pilot written by Butch Childers and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures and Misadventures of Ace the Pilot chronicles the deeds done right and deeds done wrong that the featured pilots lived through with sheer luck and by the grace of God. The stories included in this collection are trueat least as true as you can expect from pilots who are not reliable sources So Ace the pilot will take some of the blame and all the credit for these stories. Author Butch Childers was a pilot for over eighteen years. Some of the tales are about him; some are about pilots he had the pleasure, or in some cases, the displeasure of sharing a flight or two with over the years. From First Ride in a Chopper to Ducks in the Flap, this collection of stories provides an inside look at the ups and downs of being a pilot, private or commercial. Whether you are a pilot or not, these stories are bound to pique the interest of anyone who has an interest in flying. This realistic collection of stories will resonate with pilots and civilians alike.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Wee Jim by : Jim Currie
Download or read book The Adventures of Wee Jim written by Jim Currie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the old Scottish expression "Heart was roasted" has long since been lost of the annals of time. However, let me assure everyone that we (and Wee) Scotts are not - and as far as I know - never have been cannibals. The famous Scotts actor Sir Billy Conolly is an expert in use of such permission. So those who wants to know more can ask him. The expression simply means that I was not, by any measurement, well-behave child. In fact, I was a positive horror. Having said that, I assure you that you will not find three sixes tattooed on my scalp. Although it has been suggested that I was the original model for the children's comic 'Dennis the Menace.'
Book Synopsis Buffalo Land: an Authentic Narrative of the Adventures and Misadventures of a Late Scientific and Sporting Party Upon the Great Plains of the West by : William Edward Webb
Download or read book Buffalo Land: an Authentic Narrative of the Adventures and Misadventures of a Late Scientific and Sporting Party Upon the Great Plains of the West written by William Edward Webb and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Molly Miggs's trip to the seaside: the adventures and misadventures of a country lass, or, A country woman's first peep at the world by : James Spilling
Download or read book Molly Miggs's trip to the seaside: the adventures and misadventures of a country lass, or, A country woman's first peep at the world written by James Spilling and published by . This book was released on 1880* with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
