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Book Synopsis Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age by : Judith Jesch
Download or read book Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age written by Judith Jesch and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Rocks and Rhymes ' -- The Karlevi stone -- Runic inscriptions, skaldic verse and the late Viking Age -- Literacy and orality -- The runic corpus -- The skaldic corpus -- Verse in prose contexts -- Reconstructing viking verse -- The manuscript transmission -- Viking verse as a historical source -- Semantic study of skaldic verse and runic inscriptions -- Skaldic vocabulary in context -- Runes and semantics -- Comparative angles -- Sources and conventions -- Ships and men in the late Viking Age -- 2 Viking Activities -- Vikings -- vikingr -- viking -- Death and war -- 'He died' -- Battles and raids -- The fall of warriors -- Trade -- Pilgrimage -- 3 Viking Destinations -- 'East' and 'west' -- The western route -- 'West' -- England -- Britain and Ireland -- Further west -- The European continent and further south -- Saxony and Frisia -- Brittany and points south -- Normandy and southern Italy -- Africa -- The eastern route -- 'rast' -- The Baltic area -- Russia -- Byzantium and Jerusalem -- Ingvarr's expedition -- Serkland -- Scandinavia -- Hedeby -- Denmark to Sweden -- Two more towns -- 4 Ships and Sailing -- Words for 'ship' -- skip -- skeid -- snekkja -- dreki -- knQrr -- Oak and pine -- Miscellaneous words -- Summary -- Names of ships -- The ship and its parts -- The hull -- The stems -- Inside the hull -- Rudders, oars and shields -- Masts, sails and rigging -- In harbour and on land -- The vocabulary of sailing -- Description and metaphor -- Preparing and launching -- The ship in the sea -- Shipwreck and landing -- 5 The Crew, the Fleet and Battles at Sea -- Manning a ship -- The owner -- The captain -- The crew -- The fleet and the troop -- lid -- Compounds with -lid -- fioti -- leidangr -- The troop -- Units of the fleet -- Summary -- Battles at sea -- Maritime warfare -- Place and time -- Preliminaries to battle -- Bringing the ships together -- Attack and defence -- Victory and booty -- Not like leeks and ale -- 6 Group and Ethos in War and Trade -- The group and its vocabulary -- drengr -- fdlagi -- heimpegi -- huskarl -- gildi -- The ideology of battle -- 'He fled not' -- 'He fed eagles, ravens and wolves' -- The symbolism of battle: ravens and banners -- Murder and betrayal -- Kinds of killing -- Treachery -- Loyalty -- Treachery and politics -- 7 Epilogue: Kings and Ships -- From vikings to kings -- Royal and other ships in the eleventh century -- After the Viking Age -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Appendix I: The runic corpus -- Appendix II: The skaldic corpus -- Index of words and names -- General index
Book Synopsis Men, Ships, and the Sea by : Alan Villiers
Download or read book Men, Ships, and the Sea written by Alan Villiers and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den amerikanske Kaptajn A. Villiers med erfaring fra sejlads i alverdens forskellige skibstyper beskriver her skibenes og skibstypernes udvikling fra Oldtidens Ægypten til den moderne tid med et væld af instruktive tegninger, diagrammer, kort og ill. efter malerier.
Download or read book Ships and Men written by H. Bedford-Jones and published by Altus Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running for three years in the pages of the prestigious Blue Book Magazine, author H. Bedford-Jones crafted the most ambitious work of his career: a massive, 34-part saga of seafaring adventure, told chronologically throughout the annals of naval warfare, involving a number of significant figures in world history. Never before collected, this 200,000-word epic includes nearly 200 interior illustrations by artists such as Alex Raymond, John Richard Flanagan, and Leyland R. Gustavson.
Book Synopsis A Man and His Ship by : Steven Ujifusa
Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by Steven Ujifusa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the S.S. United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when “made in America” meant the best. Gibbs was an American original, on par with John Roebling of the Brooklyn Bridge and Frank Lloyd Wright of Fallingwater. Forced to drop out of Harvard following his family’s sudden financial ruin, he overcame debilitating shyness and lack of formal training to become the visionary creator of some of the finest ships in history. He spent forty years dreaming of the ship that became the S.S. United States. William Francis Gibbs was driven, relentless, and committed to excellence. He loved his ship, the idea of it, and the realization of it, and he devoted himself to making it the epitome of luxury travel during the triumphant post–World War II era. Biographer Steven Ujifusa brilliantly describes the way Gibbs worked and how his vision transformed an industry. A Man and His Ship is a tale of ingenuity and enterprise, a truly remarkable journey on land and sea.
Book Synopsis Iron Ships, Iron Men by : Christopher Nicole
Download or read book Iron Ships, Iron Men written by Christopher Nicole and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jerry McGann is a giant of a man - in love, in war, in friendship, more than living up to the wildly romantic adventurers, his ancestors Harry and Toby McGann. As the proud captain of the USS Montgomery, he sails into New Orleans harbour for the marriage of his friend Rod Bascom to Claudine Grahame, and into the arms and heart of Marguerite Grahame, the beautiful, proud and impetuous daughter of a Southern plantation owner. But the American Civil War is coming. The brothers-in-law support different sides, Jerry the Federal North and Rod the the Southern Confederacy."--Publisher description.
Book Synopsis Wooden Ships and Iron Men by : Reese Palley
Download or read book Wooden Ships and Iron Men written by Reese Palley and published by Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 beautiful nautical paintings, the first full presentation of Thomas Hoyne's work.
Book Synopsis Wooden Ships and Iron Men by : Frederick William Wallace
Download or read book Wooden Ships and Iron Men written by Frederick William Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wooden Ships and Iron Men by : David D. Bruhn
Download or read book Wooden Ships and Iron Men written by David D. Bruhn and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens
Book Synopsis Down to the Sea in Ships by : Horatio Clare
Download or read book Down to the Sea in Ships written by Horatio Clare and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable journeys. As the ships cross seas of history and incident, seafarers unfold the stories of their lives, and a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges. 'Tremendous' The Times
Download or read book Nelson's Navy written by Brian Lavery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet.
Book Synopsis On Seas of Glory by : John F. Lehman
Download or read book On Seas of Glory written by John F. Lehman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the youngest ever Secretary of the Navy comes an action-packed history of the service and the heroic men, great ships and epic battles that made it the world's greatest. photos. Maps.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Navy by : Donald L. Canney
Download or read book Lincoln's Navy written by Donald L. Canney and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Nelson's Navy and The Confederate Navy, this is a complete history of the Union Navy. As with both other works, the author looks not only at the ships and men, but also at the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactices, and gives a detailed resume of operations, both successful and failed.
Book Synopsis Ships and Men by : Henry Bedford-Jones
Download or read book Ships and Men written by Henry Bedford-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Navy written by Michael Pitassi and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years. The fabric and organisation of this maritime force is at the core of this new book.At the height of its power the Roman Navy was, at least in numerical terms, the largest maritime force ever to have existed. It employed tens of thousands of sailors and maintained and fought fleets of ships larger than any forces since. In these pages the author looks at all the aspects of the Navy in turn. Shipbuilding, rigs and fittings, and shipboard weaponry are covered as are all the principal ship from the earliest types to the very last. The command structure is outlined, as are all aspects of the crews lives, their recruitment, terms of service, training and uniforms. Life onboard, food and drink, discipline, religion and superstition are described, while seamanship and navigation are dealt with along with bases and shore establishments. Operations feature prominently, the allied and enemy navies compared, and specimen battles employed to explain fighting tactics.All these aspects changed and developed hugely over the great span of the Roman empire but this fascinating book brings this complex story together in one brilliant volume.
Book Synopsis All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories by : Sherry J. Pringle
Download or read book All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories written by Sherry J. Pringle and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada's Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales.
Download or read book Capital Navy written by John M. Coski and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the importance of Confederate naval operations on the James River, and their significant (and yet largely ignored) impact on the war in Virginia. It is impossible to fully understand how and why the war unfolded as it did in Virginia (and indeed, the Eastern Theater) without reading this book.
Book Synopsis Welsh Ships and Sailing Men by : John Geraint Jenkins
Download or read book Welsh Ships and Sailing Men written by John Geraint Jenkins and published by Gwasg Carrech Gwalch. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
