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Sea Change

Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861974419
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Sea Change written by Peter Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the publication of two other titles by Peter Nichols, A Voyage for Madmen and Lodestar Profile Books is delighted to announce the reissue of this, Peter Nichols_ first book, a biographical account of his own dramatic adventure. When his marriage ended, Peter Nichols had to sell the only thing he and his wife owned - their boat. With only his sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor and his memories of a floundering marriage, he sets out from England to sail to America to sell his beloved boat, Toad. Halfway across the Atlantic, Toad springs a leak. As the sea floods in faster, Nichols tries everything to stay afloat, desperately pumping the water out by hand. He loses the battle after 3 days and is forced to sink Toad. This is more than a sea-tale. It is the painful story of his marriage, his boat and himself.

Atlantic Seafaring

Author : Roger Morris
Publisher : International Marine Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780877423379
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Seafaring written by Roger Morris and published by International Marine Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates various ships that sailed the Atlantic over the last thousand years, including the ships of explorers, traders, pirates, settlers, fishermen, and whalers

The Sea and Civilization

Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962253
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Sea and Civilization written by Lincoln Paine and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors’ first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post–Cold War era. This tremendously readable intellectual adventure shows us the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. We find out how a once-enslaved East African king brought Islam to his people, what the American “sail-around territories” were, and what the Song Dynasty did with twenty-wheel, human-powered paddleboats with twenty paddle wheels and up to three hundred crew. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.

Atlantic Seafaring

Author : Roger Morriss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780070432987
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Seafaring written by Roger Morriss and published by . This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mortal Sea

Author : W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674070461
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Mortal Sea written by W. Jeffrey Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. While overfishing is often thought of as a contemporary problem, Bolster reveals that humans were transforming the sea long before factory trawlers turned fishing from a handliner's art into an industrial enterprise. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks, stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted fishermen for more than five hundred years. Bolster follows the effects of this siren's song from its medieval European origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an army of unknown fishermen, Bolster tells a story that is both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself. Bolster writes in the hope that the intimate relationship humans have long had with the ocean, and the species that live within it, can be restored for future generations.

North Atlantic Maritime Cultures

Author : Raoul Andersen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311080882X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book North Atlantic Maritime Cultures written by Raoul Andersen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlaws of the Atlantic

Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080703410X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Outlaws of the Atlantic written by Marcus Rediker and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners—sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together their seafaring experiences for the first time, Outlaws of the Atlantic is an unexpected and compelling peoples’ history of the “age of sail.” With his signature bottom-up approach and insight, Rediker reveals how the “motley”—that is, multiethnic—crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved Africans, and other outlaws worked together to subvert capitalism; and that, in the era of the tall ship, outlaws challenged authority from below deck. By bringing these marginal seafaring characters into the limelight, Rediker shows how maritime actors have shaped history that many have long regarded as national and landed. And by casting these rebels by sea as cosmopolitan workers of the world, he reminds us that to understand the rise of capitalism, globalization, and the formation of race and class, we must look to the sea.

The History of Seafaring

Author : Donald Johnson
Publisher : Anova Books
ISBN 13 : 9781844860401
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The History of Seafaring written by Donald Johnson and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large format, meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and fully international history of mankind's seaborne voyages from the Phoenicians and Chinese to modern navies and round-the-world sailing yachts. Royal prestige, intellectual curiosity, commerce and territorial expansion all propelled mankind to make perilous voyages across unpredictable oceans to find out what lay beyond the horizon, and the art of navigation allowed them to do so. From initial conjecture and philosophical reason, man ventured forth to glean first-hand information of the seas by exploration and scientific investigation. The author pieces together the advances in astronomy, navigation, shipbuilding and surveying through the ages to tell the fascinating and absorbing history of navigation and exploration in an elegant volume that is beautifully illustrated with manuscripts and rutters, portolans and sea charts, ship's instruments and artefacts. The meticulous research, based on original sources, has brought to light a lot of new information, which in some cases contradicts popular held beliefs. The book opens with the basic questions and challenges of navigation. Part 2 unravels the development of science and seafaring from the ancient times to the Mediterranean era. This created a basis for longer sailings, which are at the heart of Part 3 and in Part 4 the book ends with the advanced technology that made it possible to determine a ship's exact position at sea.

On the Ocean

Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198757891
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book On the Ocean written by Barry W. Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.

The First Atlantic Liners

Author : Peter Allington
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The First Atlantic Liners written by Peter Allington and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors' text and illustrations provide a vivid picture of how the well-established traditions of the sailing ship were adapted to promote the development of the paddle ships and the early screw vessels.

The Atlantic Sailor's Handbook

Author : Alastair Buchan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408100118
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Sailor's Handbook written by Alastair Buchan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, how-to guide to the planning, preparation and execution of an Atlantic passage for three specific passages: a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a trip from the East Coast of the U.S.A. to the Caribbean, and cruising around the Caribbean itself.

Iron Men, Wooden Women

Author : Margaret S. Creighton
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851605
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Iron Men, Wooden Women written by Margaret S. Creighton and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the Anglo-American age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sources—from diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sources—the authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, male-only life led to models of gender behavior based on "iron men" aboard ship and "stoic women" ashore. Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women also offers new material that defies conventional views. The authors investigate such topics as women in the American whaling industry and the role of the captain's wife aboard ship. They explore the careers of the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, as well as those of other women—"transvestite heroines"—who dressed as men to serve on the crews of sailing ships. And they explore the importance of gender and its connection to race for African American and other seamen in both the American and the British merchant marine. Contributors include both social historians and literary critics: Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.

Guide to Seafaring Collective Bargaining

Author : United States. Maritime Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Seafaring Collective Bargaining written by United States. Maritime Administration and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seafaring Guide & Directory of Labor Management Affiliations

Author : United States. Maritime Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Seafaring Guide & Directory of Labor Management Affiliations written by United States. Maritime Administration and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Storm of the Sea

Author : Matthew R. Bahar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190874244
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Storm of the Sea written by Matthew R. Bahar and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries.

Blue Water, Green Skipper

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101599286
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Blue Water, Green Skipper written by Stuart Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the true story of his journey sailing alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey—not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.

On the Ocean

Author : Sir Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191075337
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On the Ocean written by Sir Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there - a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas — the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.