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Notes On Some Few Of The Wrecks And Rescues During The Present Century
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Book Synopsis Notes on Some Few of the Wrecks and Rescues During the Present Century by : Robert Bennet Forbes
Download or read book Notes on Some Few of the Wrecks and Rescues During the Present Century written by Robert Bennet Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of Additions, with Notes by : Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
Download or read book List of Additions, with Notes written by Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.
Book Synopsis Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts by :
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Book Synopsis Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue by : State Library of Massachusetts
Download or read book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the Classes of History, Biography, Geography, and Travel by : Boston Public Library
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the Classes of History, Biography, Geography, and Travel written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Disaster on Devil's Bridge by : George A. Hough, Jr.
Download or read book Disaster on Devil's Bridge written by George A. Hough, Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete story of the tragic loss of the passenger steamer City of Columbus. In the early hours of January 18th, 1884, the majestic steamship ran aground on the treacherous Devil’s Bridge rocks and reef off the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah, Massachusetts near Martha’s Vineyard. Of the 45 officers and 87 passengers, only 17 crew and 12 passengers made it back to land, making this shipwreck one of the worst ocean disasters of all time. Reporter George Hough spent years following this story, tracking down survivors and witnesses to piece together the horrific details and tragic mistakes to uncover the mystery of the disaster on Devil’s Bridge.
Book Synopsis Additions to the Library by : Boston Athenaeum
Download or read book Additions to the Library written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Graveyard of the Atlantic by : David Stick
Download or read book Graveyard of the Atlantic written by David Stick and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Download or read book Raising Missouri written by Chuck Veit and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the little-known story of the life and death of the first U.S.S. Missouri, and the unknown tale of her life after death. This is the story of the attempts to raise the first USS Missouri from Gibraltar Bay between 1843 and 1852.
Book Synopsis Treasurer's Report of the Receipts and Expenditures ... by : Brookline, Mass
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Book Synopsis Report by : Public Library of Brookline
Download or read book Report written by Public Library of Brookline and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the Town of Brookline by :
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Book Synopsis Report by : State Library of Massachusetts
Download or read book Report written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: