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Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Men who Dare the Sea and Other Stories written by Reader's Digest and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Shaw
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806525273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Daring the Sea written by David W. Shaw and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, two Norwegian immigrants from the New Jersey coast set out to attain their piece of the American Dream by risking their lives to achieve the seemingly impossible. Convinced that they had no bright future as clam diggers supplying the Fulton Fish Market in New York City, they conceived a plan to set a world record by becoming the first men to row across the Atlantic Ocean. To family, friends, and those intimate with the sea, the plan appeared suicidal; but to the two men, George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen, the crossing represented a way out of lives offering little promise. Their hope was to attract worldwide attention and lucrative lecture and exhibition fees if they succeeded.
Author : Rear-Admiral Daniel Vincent Gallery
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200949
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book U-505 written by Rear-Admiral Daniel Vincent Gallery and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Daniel V. Gallery boarded and captured a German U-Boat at sea in June, 1944—the first American officer to so capture an enemy warship since 1815! U-505 is Admiral Gallery’s own story of his extraordinary feat—and also a gripping narrative of the fierce Allied war against the German U-Boat fleet. “EXCELLENT.”—Chicago Tribune “Terrific...the first-hand story of Uncle Sam’s U-Boat killers.”—Chicago Daily News “Brimming with thrills.”—Philadelphia News “An engrossing tale...Pungent, entertaining, informative.”—Navy Times “A humdinger of a sea story...a highly readable book, trimmed from stem to stern with the writer’s irrepressible sense of humor.”—Chicago Sunday Times “Excellent in several ways: it provides a fine quick survey of the whole Atlantic war, it describes the operation of the German U-boat service, and, most dramatically, it tells how an American task force under Admiral Gallery achieved the unique feat of capturing a German submarine.”—Publishers’ Weekly “U-505 IS ONE OF THE WAR’S MOST EXCITING MEMOIRS.”—Chicago News “One of the best non-fiction books about World War II.”—Raleigh News & Observer “A first-rate adventure tale...suspense and excitement told with a seaman’s salty zest...excellent reading.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune “A masterful job that merits the attention of every lover of sea stories.”—Pittsburgh Press
Author : Gardner Soule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Men who Dared the Sea written by Gardner Soule and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author begins with prehistoric man and traces man's journey towards todays oceanography. This book includes sailors of the Stone and Bronze ages, in the ships of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Phoenicians, northern Europeans, and Romans. From the existing historical and archeological records the author tells why these mariners went to sea, how they navigated, what their ships were like, and what they learned on their journeys.
Author : Benjamin Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080616316X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Small Boats and Daring Men written by Benjamin Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era’s conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work—with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors’ memoirs and diaries, and officers’ correspondence—is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century.
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743252225
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Sea of Thunder written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos.
Author : Edward L. Beach
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612515460
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Cold is the Sea written by Edward L. Beach and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as heart stopping and almost unbearably suspenseful, Edward L. Beach's third novel is set fifteen years after the end of World War II as the US Navy converts its fleet of conventional submarines to nuclear-powered ships. The book focuses on the USS Cushing, whose sixteen missile silos carry more explosive power than all the munitions used in both world wars. The submarine is on a secret mission to the Arctic Ocean to determine whether her missiles are effective when fired from beneath the ice. When the Cushing is incapacitated with a suspicious Russian sub lurking in the vicinity, the scene is set for a dramatic novel rich in all the technical detail and submarine lore that have entertained millions of readers of Captain Beach's other fictional works.
Author : David Barrie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006227936X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Sextant written by David Barrie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool that measures the angle between a celestial object and the horizon, the sextant allowed sailors to pinpoint their exact location at sea. David Barrie chronicles the sextant's development and shows how it not only saved the lives of navigators in wild and dangerous seas, but played a pivotal role in their ability to map the globe. He synthesizes centuries of seafaring history and the daring sailors who have become legend, including James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Robert Fitz-Roy, Frank Worsley of the Endurance, and Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old "lunarian" and first single-handed-round-the-world yachtsman. He also recounts his own maiden voyage, and insights gleaned from his experiences as a practiced seaman and navigator. Full of heroism, danger, and excitement, told with an infectious sense of wonder, Sextant offers a new look at a masterful achievement that changed the course of history.
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Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Book of Battles, Or Daring Deeds by Land and Sea, Compiled from the Best Authorities. With Original Stories of the Camp Fire and the Quarter-deck. [Edited by Edward Shelton and Charles Jones.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150110683X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Finest Hours written by Michael J. Tougias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1952 Coast Guard mission to save the crews of two oil tankers that were torn in half by the force of one of New England's worst nor'easters.
Author : David W. Shaw
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574092073
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Sea Wolf of the Confederacy written by David W. Shaw and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Shaw is the author of America's Victory and a number of other books. He lives in Maine.
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Author : Book
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The book of battles; or, Daring deeds by land and sea [ed. by E. Shelton and C. Jones]. written by Book and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Swidey
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886735
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Author : Tracey Fern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466860146
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Dare the Wind written by Tracey Fern and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down around the tip of Cape Horn, and into San Francisco, where the Gold Rush was well under way. In a time when few women even accompanied their husbands onboard, Ellen Prentiss navigated their ship to set the world record for speed along that route. A Margaret Ferguson Book
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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The History, Adventures, and Daring Robberies, Committed on the High Seas, by the Following Notorious Pirates written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shebnah Rich
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Truro--Cape Cod, Or, Land Marks and Sea Marks written by Shebnah Rich and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Keble Chatterton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates written by E. Keble Chatterton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates' by E. Keble Chatterton, readers are taken on an adventurous journey through the golden age of piracy. Through engaging and vivid storytelling, Chatterton recounts thrilling accounts of notorious pirates and their daring exploits on the high seas. The book is rich in historical detail and offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of these infamous figures, making it a valuable resource for those interested in maritime history and piracy literature. Chatterton's writing is both informative and entertaining, capturing the spirit of the era with enthusiasm and flair. E. Keble Chatterton, a prolific author and maritime historian, was known for his expertise in naval and pirate history. His passion for the subject is evident in 'Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates,' as he delves into the lives of some of the most legendary buccaneers of all time. Chatterton's research is meticulous, providing readers with a comprehensive and insightful look at the world of piracy. I highly recommend 'Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates' to anyone interested in maritime adventure, history, or tales of daring escapades on the high seas. Chatterton's masterful storytelling and deep knowledge of the subject make this book a captivating read for both scholars and enthusiasts alike.
