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Download or read book Steaming East written by Sarah Searight and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 19th century, it took months to get from England to India, clear at the other end of the Empire. Better communications were imperative. This is the story of how it was done - laboriously, stubbornly, sometimes misguidedly - by several generations of entrepeneurs, engineers, inventors and military men, first with steamships and then by railway. It is a story full of colourful anecdotes and even more colourful characters, from Captain Charles Chesney (who tried - and failed - to establish a steamship route on the Euphrates River to the founder of the Orient Express (who rejoiced in the name of Georges Nagelmackers) to Major James Buster Browne, builder of a rail line across a Northwest Indian desert so inhospitable that 32 soldiers died there of heat stroke when their train broke down. The account spans roughly a century, from the first tentative use of steam engines in ships to the decline of the great age of railways following World War I.
Book Synopsis McCracken's Practical Navigation by : John James McCracken
Download or read book McCracken's Practical Navigation written by John James McCracken and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Armenia and the Near East by : Fridtjof Nansen
Download or read book Armenia and the Near East written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, and Electricity, for the Use of Junior Officers Afloat by : James Alfred Ewing
Download or read book Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, and Electricity, for the Use of Junior Officers Afloat written by James Alfred Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steaming to Bamboola by : Christopher Buckley
Download or read book Steaming to Bamboola written by Christopher Buckley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic for the umpteenth time—but on this occasion with a sharp-eyed observer, whose brilliant account brings to life the harshness, humor, and bizarreness of life on board. Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance. It is the tale of a ship and her crew, men fated to wander for a living—always steaming to, but never quite reaching, Bamboola. This was the first book by renowned author and humorist Christopher Buckley, which was originally published in 1982 to glowing reviews. Forty years and over twenty books and hundreds of articles later, Buckley introduces Columbianna and her roguish crew to a new generation of readers.
Book Synopsis Transactions by : Linnean Society of London
Download or read book Transactions written by Linnean Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Small Craft by : George Henry Pasche Muhlhauser
Download or read book Small Craft written by George Henry Pasche Muhlhauser and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by : United States Naval Institute
Download or read book Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unbroken written by Alastair Mars and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the bleak, heartbreaking days of early 1942, when beleaguered Malta was reeling under bombardment and blockade and Rommel was making his last desperate thrust towards Egypt, only one British submarine was operating in the western Mediterranean - the tiny, 600-ton Unbroken. In twelve months in the Med, Unbroken sank over 30,000 tons of enemy shipping, took part in four secret operations, three successful gun actions, and survived a total of over 400 depth charges, as well as innumerable air and surface attacks. This account of the 26-year-old Alastair Mars' command of this outstandingly successful submarine embraces her construction, sea trials and voyage to Gibraltar preparatory to her vital role in the Mediterranean. Once there, she was responsible for the destruction of two Italian cruisers and played a pivotal part in Operation Pedestal, the convoy that saved Malta from surrender. Alastair Mars writes simply and without pretension, and his words evoke the claustrophobic yet heroic world of the submariner.
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Download or read book Marine Engineer and Motorship Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St. Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steaming Into a Victorian Future by : Julie Anne Taddeo
Download or read book Steaming Into a Victorian Future written by Julie Anne Taddeo and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on--and interrelationship with--popular culture and the wider society.
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Download or read book China Station written by Mark Felton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial intervention saw the establishment of Hong Kong and Shanghai as key trading centres. The Second Opium War and the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions saw the advancement of British influence despite determined but unsuccessful efforts by the Chinese to loosen the grip of Western domination. The Royal Navys might ensured that, by gunboat diplomacy, trading rights and new posts were established and great fortunes made.But in the 1940s the British grossly underestimated Japanese military might and intentions with disastrous results. After the Second World War the British returned to find that the Americans had supplanted them. The Communists victory in the Civil War sealed British and Western fates and, while Hong Kong remained under British control until 1997, the end of British rule was almost inevitable. But the handover was a masterly piece of pragmatic capitalism and the former Colony remains an economic powerhouse with strong British influence.
Download or read book Promised Lands written by Jonathan Parry and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent—through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Promised Lands is a panoramic history of this vibrant and explosive age. Charting the development of Britain’s political interest in the Middle East from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War in the 1850s, Jonathan Parry examines the various strategies employed by British and Indian officials, describing how they sought influence with local Arabs, Mamluks, Kurds, Christians, and Jews. He tells a story of commercial and naval power—boosted by the arrival of steamships in the 1830s—and discusses how classical and biblical history fed into British visions of what these lands might become. The region was subject to the Ottoman Empire, yet the sultan’s grip on it appeared weak. Should Ottoman claims to sovereignty be recognised and exploited, or ignored and opposed? Could the Sultan’s government be made to support British objectives, or would it always favour France or Russia? Promised Lands shows how what started as a geopolitical contest became a drama about diplomatic competition, religion, race, and the unforeseen consequences of history.
Book Synopsis Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet by : Gerald E. Wheeler
Download or read book Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet written by Gerald E. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
