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Sea Venture

Author : Kieran Doherty
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466852453
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sea Venture written by Kieran Doherty and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most triumphant high sea stories ever told, Kieran Doherty brings to life the true story of the ship that rescued the Jamestown settlement in 1610 and ensured England's place in the New World. When the Sea Venture left England in 1609, it was flagship in a fleet of nine bound for Jamestown with roughly 600 settlers and badly needed supplies aboard. But after four weeks at sea, as the voyage neared its end, a hurricane devastated the fleet, leaving the Sea Venture shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda. It took Sea Venture's passengers nearly a year and half to reach their destination. Awaiting them was not a thriving colony, but instead the remaining fifty colonists—beleaguered, desperate and hungry. But, the question remains, would the English have lost their place in the New World if the ship never arrived? A story of strife and triumph, but above all, endurance, Sea Venture begins and ends in hope and remains one of the greatest "What Ifs?" in history. With a bravado reminiscent of Patrick O'Brien's legendary sea sagas, Doherty braves the elements, delivering a powerful history willed by a people destined to change the New World forever.

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 9781429930963
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown written by Lorri Glover and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.

Merchant Vessels of the United States

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miracle

Author : Gail Langer Karwoski
Publisher : Darby Creek
ISBN 13 : 9781581960150
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Miracle written by Gail Langer Karwoski and published by Darby Creek. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1609 a fleet of nine ships left England bound for the Jamestown Colony. Days before landfall, the fleet was hit by a hurricane. Four nights later, the flagship, Sea Venture, ran aground on the reefs on Bermuda's northern coast. Miraculously everyone survived. This is their story.--

The Many-headed Hydra

Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847985
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Many-headed Hydra written by Peter Linebaugh and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged.

Merchant Vessels of the United States ... (including Yachts).

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2084 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States ... (including Yachts). written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 2084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merchant Vessels of the United States...

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States... written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The English Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The English Reports: Privy Council

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Reports: Privy Council written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).

Sailing's Strangest Tales

Author : John Harding
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1911042653
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Sailing's Strangest Tales written by John Harding and published by Portico. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains. Word count: 45,000

Divine Wind

Author : Kerry Emanuel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199727341
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Divine Wind written by Kerry Emanuel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane. In Divine Wind, Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities on hurricanes, gives us an engaging account of these awe-inspiring meteorological events, revealing how hurricanes and typhoons have literally altered human history, thwarting military incursions and changing the course of explorations. Offering an account of the physics of the tropical atmosphere, the author explains how such benign climates give rise to the most powerful storms in the world and tells what modern science has learned about them. Interwoven with this scientific account are descriptions of some of the most important hurricanes in history and relevant works of art and literature. For instance, he describes the 17th-century hurricane that likely inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest and that led to the British colonization of Bermuda. We also read about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, by far the worst natural calamity in U.S. history, with a death toll between 8,000 and 12,000 that exceeded the San Francisco earthquake, the Johnstown Flood, and the Okeechobee Hurricane co Boasting more than one hundred color illustrations, frommbined. Boasting more than one hundred color illustrations, from ultra-modern Doppler imagery to classic paintings by Winslow Homer, Divine Wind captures the profound effects that hurricanes have had on humanity. Its fascinating blend of history, science, and art will appeal to weather junkies, science buffs, and everyone who read Isaac's Storm.

Puzzle Paragraphs

Author : Christine Boardman Moen
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN 13 : 1573105228
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Puzzle Paragraphs written by Christine Boardman Moen and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Puzzle Paragraphs will show you how to: construct and deconstruct the most common nonfiction text types, seamlessly integrate these activities into readers' and writers workshops, and use the sample texts and BLMs provided in this comprehensive resource book."--back cover.

A Maritime Archaeology of Ships

Author : J. R. Adams
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1842172972
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book A Maritime Archaeology of Ships written by J. R. Adams and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet their potential is far from exhausted. In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. As technological puzzles they have long confounded explanation but when viewed in the context of the societies in which they were created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most complex artefacts made, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, strategies and agency of social change. Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in which medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstrates that the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory in which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.

Qe2

Author : Ronald W. Warwick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393047725
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Qe2 written by Ronald W. Warwick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the most thorough book on the legendary "Queen Elizabeth II" includes the refit of the mid-1990s and many new photos of interiors and details. Capt. Warrick begins with the history of the ship and moves forward to the new owner's plans for the future. 150 color photos.

LIFE

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-03-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

A Voyage to Virginia in 1609

Author : Louis Booker Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Voyage to Virginia in 1609 written by Louis Booker Wright and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The two works reprinted here, inaugurating a projected series of contemporary narratives relating to the settlement of Virginia, have been much discussed as sources of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest.' Both William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain were passengers on the ill-fated 'Sea Venture,' which wrecked in 1609 within sight of one of the Bermuda Islands when this vessel, with eight others in the expedition led by Sir Thomas Gates, was on its way to Jamestown. Aside from their Virginian and Shakespearean interest, the narratives that Strachey and Jourdain wrote are both intrinsically fascinating documents and have a significant place in the voyage literature of their day.' So reads the preface to this first modern-spelling edition of these absorbing accounts. The editor, Louis B. Wright, is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is author and editor of many book son American and English history and is eminently well qualified to evaluate and present these seventeenth-century writers to a modern audience."--Pg. [4] of cover.

Quick Pick

Author : Dan Morris
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491742542
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Quick Pick written by Dan Morris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: QUICK PICK is the fourth in a series following “Beyond Evil”, “Runaway Mom”, and “The Order”. In this case, Private Investigator Frank McLaughlin befriends a homeless man (Jonas Jackson) on the streets of Dallas, Texas. Jonas is a displaced person from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Frank’s curse of curiosity drives him to learn what is behind Jonas’ obsession over some deeply guarded event from his distant past that continues to torment his daily thoughts. When Frank gives Jonas five dollars, Jonas returns two dollars and asks him to purchase a “Quick Pick” Power Ball lottery ticket for him. When Jonas wins the first prize, he hires Frank to manage his affairs and do some investigative work for him. Together, they embark on a relentless crusade that includes the purchase of a yacht (Sea Venture) and the hiring of a crew that is eclectic and diverse. In search of answers to Jonas’ unrevealed past and a desire for redemption and closure, they sail off into the Caribbean. In their search they will face treacherous weather, pirates and death defying odds. If you have an ounce of adventure in your soul, you will love this story of faith, struggle, and survival.