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Author : Jacob A. Hazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast ... written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast, Or, Life in the Forecastle Aboard of a Whaler and Man-of-war written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Longley
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635683238
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Twenty-Five Years before the Mast written by Peter Longley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study encompassing a period of rapid growth and change, a cruise director looks back over a career that spanned twenty-five years on some of the best-known luxury ships of the second half of the twentieth century, including ten years aboard Cunard’s famous ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. Peter Longley fell into the industry by accident in 1978, at a time when it could be said that cruising was exclusively for the rich and famous. Longley traces this form
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
Publisher : Narahari Press
ISBN 13 : 1409718743
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast, Or, Life in the Forecastle, Aboard of a Whaler and Man-Of-War written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by Narahari Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Charles Erskine
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book 20 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST PB written by Charles Erskine and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacob a [From Old Catalog] Hazen
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017757866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before The Mast written by Jacob a [From Old Catalog] Hazen and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book To Cuba and Back written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide to changing current thinking to avoid the corporate media hype, shaped by brand-names, celebrities, and empty gloss, that defines our modern culture.
Author : Ben Van Etten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535612487
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years Before the (Rotor) Mast written by Ben Van Etten and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a memoir of 50 years flying helicopters in a variety of situations. Included are rescues, combat operations, mountain and off-shore flying, medical evacuations, flight instruction and numerous flight missions that require pushing the flight envelope to the maximum. Highlighted are Ben Van Etten's five years as a flight captain with Air America, Inc. in Thailand and the unpublicized war in Laos. During that period the author describes in detail his interaction with other pilots and his "customers," primarily the CIA. The book also includes geographical and historical observations from a first person prospective. And a vivid description from inside the cockpit during many lifesaving missions. This book should tweak the interest of aviators and non-aviators alike.
Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393048136
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story written by Michael M. Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David W. Shaw
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061873888
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Flying Cloud written by David W. Shaw and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying Cloud is the riveting and thoroughly researched tale of a truly unforgettable sea voyage during the days of the California gold rush. In 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, traveling from New York to San Francisco in only 89 days. This swift passage set a world record that went unbroken for more than a century. Upon arrival in San Francisco, Flying Cloud became an enduring symbol of a young nation's daring frontier spirit. Illustrated with original maps and charts as well as historical photographs, Shaw's compelling narrative captures the drama of this thrilling adventure. In a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-19th century, Eleanor Creesy served as the ship's navigator. With only the sun, planets, and stars to guide her, she brought Flying Cloud safely around Cape Horn at the height of a winter blizzard, faced storms, dodged shoals, and found her way through calms to make the swift passage possible. Along with her husband, Josiah, the ship's captain, she sailed the mighty 3-masted clipper through 16,000 miles of the fiercest, most unpredictable oceans in the world. Shaw vividly recreates 19th-century seafaring conditions and customs, for both the crew and the passengers who entrusted their fate to an untested ship. Including excerpts from letters and diaries of passengers, Shaw recounts Flying Cloud's victory in the face of adversity—including sabotage, insubordination, and severe damage to the clipper's mainmast that might have sunk her with all hands lost. But the ship triumphed and would ultimately sail the world. Flying Cloud brings to life, for the first time, the glory of one of America's most important seafaring tales and one woman's incredible achievements.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429958111
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Looking for a Ship written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Dreamers Before the Mast written by John Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is the explanation of the intensity of bonding between people and ships
Author : Charles Tyng
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140291911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Before the Wind written by Charles Tyng and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Tyng's quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times at the begining of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. Before the Wind has been hailed as a superb contribution to seafaring literature, alongside such books as Two Years Before the Mast and the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Both Tyng's life and the way he recounts his years at sea are full of wonder: He survives shipwrecks, squalls, and pirates. He makes and loses fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton. He meets Lord Byron as well as the British princess (later queen) Victoria. Sailors, armchair travelers, history buffs, and lovers of pulse-quickening maritime stories will find this book as seductive as the siren song of the sea.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author : Christopher R. Beha
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199909
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Whole Five Feet written by Christopher R. Beha and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom “makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion” (The New York Times Book Review). While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned “five foot shelf” of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth century by Charles William Eliot—to educate herself during the Great Depression. He decided to follow her example and turn to this series of great books for answers—and recounts the experience here in a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that “deftly illustrates how books can save one’s life” (Helen Schulman). “As he grapples with the death of his beloved grandmother, a debilitating bout with Lyme disease and other major and minor calamities, Beha finds that writers as diverse as Wordsworth, Pascal, Kant and Mill had been there before, and that the results of their struggles to find meaning in life could inform his own.” —The Seattle Times “An important book [and] a sheer blast to read.” —Heidi Julavits
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007597843
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Last Grain Race written by Eric Newby and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.
