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Citizen Sailors

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Author : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674915550
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Sailors written by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors’ pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all races—nearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government’s most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government’s most explicit recognition of black Americans’ equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood.

In Praise of Sailors

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Author : Herbert W. Warden
Publisher : Abradale/Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810980822
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Sailors written by Herbert W. Warden and published by Abradale/Abrams. This book was released on 1987 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an ongoing narrative of the sailor's life at sea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

In Praise of Sailors

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Author : Herbert W. Warden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Sailors written by Herbert W. Warden and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battleship Sailor

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Author : Theodore C. Mason
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511562
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Battleship Sailor written by Theodore C. Mason and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.

The Sailor's Wife

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Author : Helen Benedict
Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sailor's Wife written by Helen Benedict and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce finds herself living the merciless life of a Greek peasant woman, at the command of people steeped in religion, misogyny, superstition, and their experience of war.".

The Coast of Summer

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Author : Anthony Bailey
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574090741
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Coast of Summer written by Anthony Bailey and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Bailey was a staff writer for The New Yorker for 35 years and is the author of 18 books, including The Inside Passage.

Left for Dead

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Author : Howard Jencks
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469190958
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Left for Dead written by Howard Jencks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigating the murder of a suspected serial killer in the Lake Tahoe basin, Detective Michael Garrett is lead back to the small desert border town he once called home, where he uncovers a violent drug cartel that has begun expansion into the United States, and discovers the frightening reality that he has now placed not only himself, but his family and others in harms way. Driven by tourism, the last thing the city of Stateline, Nevada wanted to do was announce the presence of a serial killer. Driven by the laws of nature, the last thing Rosa Jimenez wanted was to become his next victim. Called to assist with a gruesome fi nding, Detective Garrett fi nds himself entrenched in an investigation he cant walk away from. Recognizing Rosa from his past, he was resolute that justice be served. As the investigation leads Garrett south, he seeks the assistance of an old friend and current Vice-Detective with the LAPD, David Ross. When Ross is unable to open doors in the Los Angeles area, Garrett realizes his next stop is his hometown on the Mexican border where he stumbles on a link to Los Zetas, a Drug Cartel that has formed an alliance with the Mexican Mafi a. Used to operating with impunity in Mexico, the cartel targets Garrett and his family as his investigation begins to threaten their business. In a daring attempt to make things right, the detectives cross the border to confront the man directing the cartel henchmen.

Sailing at the U.S. Naval Academy

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Author : Robert W. McNitt
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sailing at the U.S. Naval Academy written by Robert W. McNitt and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heavily illustrated book chronicles sailing's unique heritage at the Naval Academy from 1845 onward. It begins in the days of fighting sail, when the reputation of a naval officer depended principally on his ability to handle a square-rigged ship and when sailing was the central activity of the school. Sailing offers vivid descriptions of training aboard the grand old practice ships - Constitution, Constellation, and Macedonian - under master mariners like Stephen B. Luce, then moves to the 1930s, when some energetic midshipmen revived the sailing program by entering intercollegiate competition and offshore racing. By 1995 the program was the most popular midshipman activity; academy sailors won the Dinghy National Championship four times in five years and the top prize in the Newport-to-Bermuda Race - after fifty-four years of trying! Written by a well-known sailor and longtime ocean-racing coach at the Academy, the book is filled with dramatic stories of great races and adventurous cruising. And it records the history of the famous Luders yawls Fearless, Dandy, and Flirt, and the donated boats Vamarie, Highland Light, and Royono, among others, plus sixty years of intercollegiate small-boat racing. It also documents the academy's development of the Quick Stop man-overboard rescue maneuver and its Safety at Sea seminar program, both of which have been adopted nationwide. Admiral McNitt credits the contributions and support of the Fales Committee, the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, and other civilian groups who have provided invaluable support over many years. Appendixes list Dinghy National Championship winners, midshipman All-American sailors, the performance of academy boats inthe Bermuda race, and members of the Fales Committee.

Sailing to Freedom

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Author : Timothy D. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625345936
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Sailing to Freedom written by Timothy D. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.

John Paul Jones

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Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603991
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.

The Sailor's Magazine

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Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sailor's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unsinkable

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Author : Abby Sunderland
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1400203082
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Unsinkable written by Abby Sunderland and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stirring narrative of Unsinkable tells sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland's remarkable true story of attempting to become the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world.

Imperfect Passage

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Author : Michael Cosgrove
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620873516
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Imperfect Passage written by Michael Cosgrove and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Cosgrove had a beautiful family, a successful career, and a lovely Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At the age sixty, he decided to leave that all behind to sail around the world. In spite of his romanticized vision of rugged individualism and salty tales to share with his grandchildren, Cosgrove quickly realizes that sailing around the world isn’t going to be as easy as he’d imagined. From a psychotic crewmate, sleep deprivation, and mental breakdowns, to stormy weather and hallucinations, Cosgrove rides the waves, holding on as best he can to his dream of “doing something grand.” Alone, and thousands of miles away from everyone and everything he loves, he is forced to ask himself one question: what in God’s name am I doing here? In his attempt to avoid the inevitable (growing old, weak, frail), Cosgrove runs amok. He breaks his budget to outfit the boat and then refuses to read the manuals. He enters unfamiliar harbors in the dead of night, hires a violent first mate, and sails headlong into ferocious storms. In the midst of his adventures, he longs for the simpler days when his four daughters were still children, when his first marriage was still intact, and when his future still seemed bright and expansive. Though driven by scenes of sheer terror, absurd folly, and deep inner searching, Cosgrove keeps his sense of humor throughout his harrowing journey. Imperfect Passage is the story of one man’s perseverance against Father Time and Mother Nature, proving that with enough will, one can, in his or her own way, conquer the unconquerable. Michael Cosgrove will be donating a portion of his profits to the Navy Special Warfare Family Foundation.

A Sailor's Story

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Author : Sam Glanzman
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486798127
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book A Sailor's Story written by Sam Glanzman and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.

Sailing a Serious Ocean

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Author : John Kretschmer
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071718125
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Sailing a Serious Ocean written by John Kretschmer and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I know you'll want to read more after you finish Sailing a Serious Ocean. And be warned, you'll very likely want to sail with John, perhaps across an ocean." -- DALLAS MURPHY, AUTHOR OF ROUNDING THE HORN After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world's oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories and advice to share. John's offshore training passages sell out a year in advance and his entertaining presentations are popular at boat shows and yacht clubs all over the English speaking world. John's talent for storytelling enchants his audience as it soaks up the lessons he learned during his oftenchallengingvoyages. Now you can take a seat next to John--at a lesser cost--and get the knowledge you need to fulfill your own dream of blue-water adventure. In Sailing a Serious Ocean, John tells you what to expect when sailing the oceans and shows how to sail safely across them. His tales of storm encounters and other examples of extreme seamanship will help you prepare for your journey and give you confidence to handle any situation—even heavy weather. Through his personal stories, John will guide you through the whole process of choosing the right boat, outfitting with the right gear,planning your route, navigating the ocean, and understanding the nuances of life at sea. Our oceans are beautiful yet unpredictable—water that is at one moment a natural mirror for the glowing sun can turn into a foamy, raging wall of fury. John knows our oceans, and he is one of the best teachers of taming and enjoying them. Before you set off across the big blue, turn to John for his inspirational stories and hard-learned advice and discover the serious sailor in you.

Ithaca

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Author : Martin Burke
Publisher : Lapwing Publications
ISBN 13 : 1905425945
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Ithaca written by Martin Burke and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pilot, or Sailors' magazine. [Continued as] Sailors' magazine

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Author : British and foreign sailors' society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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