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Author : Dennis Skinner
Publisher : Quercus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781782061595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences written by Dennis Skinner and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315304570
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Labour Church written by Neil Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning. The religious influences on late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century British Socialism are examined and placed within a wider context, highlighting a continuing theological imperative for the British Labour movement. The book argues that the most distinctive feature of the Labour Church was Theological Socialism. For its founder, John Trevor, Theological Socialism was the literal Religion of Socialism, a post-Christian prophecy announcing the dawn of a new utopian era explained in terms of the Kingdom of God on earth; for members of the Labour Church, who are referred to as Theological Socialists, Theological Socialism was an inclusive message about God working through the Labour movement. Challenging the historiography and reappraising the political significance of the Labour Church, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the intersection between religion and politics, as well as radical left history and politics more generally.
Author : D.J. Taylor
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472123956
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The New Book of Snobs written by D.J. Taylor and published by Constable. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's door in the early twenty-first century is to suggest that they happen to be a snob. But what constitutes snobbishness? Who are the snobs and where are they to be found? Are you a snob? Am I? What are the distinguishing marks? Snobbery is, in fact, one of the keys to contemporary British life, as vital to the backstreet family on benefits as the proprietor of the grandest stately home, and an essential element of their view of who of they are and what the world might be thought to owe them. The New Book of Snobs will take a marked interest in language, the vocabulary of snobbery - as exemplified in the 'U' and 'Non U' controversy of the 1950s - being a particular field in which the phenomenon consistently makes its presence felt, and alternate social analysis with sketches of groups and individuals on the Thackerayan principle. Prepare to meet the Political Snob, the City Snob, the Technology Snob, the Property Snob, the Rural Snob, the Literary Snob, the Working-class Snob, the Sporting Snob, the Popular Cultural Snob and the Food Snob.
Author : Thomas WEST (Wesleyan Minister.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Ten Years in South-Central Polynesia: being reminiscences of a personal mission to the Friendly Islands and their dependencies, etc written by Thomas WEST (Wesleyan Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Henry Bundey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Twenty-five Years' Yachting in Australia written by Sir William Henry Bundey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences and Reflections of an Octogenarian Highlander written by Duncan Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143132091
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Second Wind written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two. “There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish.” In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife crisis? It was certainly a watershed for the journalist-turned-stay-at-home dad, who impulsively decided to throw his hat into the ring, or water, again. With the bemused approval of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season on the island as his solitary training ground, sailing his tiny Sunfish to its remotest corners, experiencing the haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and wave-battered sandbars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on a lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and memories, racing for the prize, but finding something unexpected about himself instead.
Author : Pete Goss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747275190
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Close to the Wind written by Pete Goss and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the man who rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli during the Vendee Globe race in 1996.
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101599286
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
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.
Author : Kathy Sammis
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825143700
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Focus on World History written by Kathy Sammis and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics include: Empires and societies of Eurasia. European Renaissance and Reformation. Causes and consequences of the age of revolutions. Interactions and conflicts between Europe and Asia.
Author : Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Dominion Museum (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Dominion Museum Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elsdon Best
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Maori Canoe written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Beeston
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780877010180
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Of Wind, Fog and Sail written by Diane Beeston and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1972 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas C. Pyle
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780070526792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Clean, Sweet Wind written by Douglas C. Pyle and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyle recounts the five years he spent sailing throughout the eastern Caribbean seeking out native whalers, fishermen, and traders to learn how they built their boats.
Author : Christopher Caswell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083538
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told written by Christopher Caswell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, man has sailed into battle, sailed for rumored wealth, and sailed for pure adventure. And for nearly as long, stories about the sea have entertained, intrigued, and inspired readers. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together some of the most compelling writing of the millennium. Here is Peter Goss's wrenching narrative of incredible courage in the world's most desolate ocean along with Ernest Shackleton's understated and awesome account of one of the most daring small-boat journeys ever taken, where failure meant certain death for his long-suffering crew. But sailing is much more than headlong dashes into roaring seas. You'll also find William F. Buckley Jr. on idyllic cruising; James Thurber on the arcane and often impenetrable language of sailors; and the legendary Joshua Slocum on sailing alone around the world. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told is a treasure trove: tears, adrenaline, laughter, and adventure abound. With contributions from: - James Thurber -William F. Buckley Jr. - Ann Davison - Sterling Hayden - Ernest Shackleton - Tristan Jones - Samuel Eliot Morrison - Joshua Slocum - E. B. White - C. S. Forester - Cleveland Amory - Weston Martyr - Peter Goss - David Kasanof – and many others.
Author : Susan Cole
Publisher : White Bird Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1633635384
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Holding Fast written by Susan Cole and published by White Bird Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At once a captivating life story made up of a rich history, and a beautiful reflection on loves lost. Tender, moving, and highly readable.” —Torre DeRoche Author of Love with a Chance of Drowning “This book is one part “Hero’s Journey” and two parts love story; an alchemy of high adventure and keen insights that will take your breath away and expand your capacity to love. Empowering, entertaining, and most of all inspiring. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I know you will too.” —Brian Luke Seaward Author of Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water HOLDING FAST: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss is Susan’s story of leaving everything behind to follow her husband’s lifelong dream of sailing away. Blond, blue-eyed, irreverent John bursts into Susan’s life in her twenties with a dream of sailing off. Susan dreams of settling down and doesn’t want to go. A three-year voyage with their young daughter to the Caribbean profoundly changes their lives. A gripping adventure story and an inspirational memoir of finding our power in the unlikeliest of places.
