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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Storm written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon LeVay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452289321
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book When Science Goes Wrong written by Simon LeVay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing study of scientific failure provides twelve shocking stories drawn from a range of scientific fields, ranging from a surprise hurricane that makes violent landfall despite forecasters claims that it does not exist, to a team of scientists that ignores signs of an imminent eruption to hike into a supposedly dormant volcanic crater. Original.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Storm: or, a Collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land. By D. Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978250185
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Storm written by Daniel Defoe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Storm (1704) is a pioneering work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time."
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2776 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Complete Novels of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated) written by Daniel Defoe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 2776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: "Robinson Crusoe" – Defoe's most famous novel tells the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for thirty years and his subsequent adventures. "Captain Singleton" – an adventure story that covers a traversal of Africa and taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. "Colonel Jack" – follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a tricky notion of becoming a "gentleman." "Moll Flanders" – tells the story of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th-century England. "Memoirs of a Cavalier" – is set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War. It is presented as a military journal of the Wars in Germany and England. "A Journal of the Plague Year" – This biographical novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" – The novel follows the adventures of a young woman from wealth, to prostitution, to freedom. "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" – The sequel to "Robinson" describes how Crusoe traveled back in Bedford. Criticism: Robinson Crusoe by Arthur Quiller-Couch Robinson Crusoe by W. P. Trent Biographies: The Life of Daniel De Foe by George Chalmers Daniel Defoe by William Minto The Earlier Life of Daniel Defoe by Henry Morley Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), was an English writer, journalist, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
Author : Martin Brayne
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954124
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Storm written by Martin Brayne and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All but forgotten now, the Great Storm of 26/27 November 1703 was the worst storm experienced in recorded history in the British Isles. Over 8000 people died and the losses of property and shipping were immense. Martin Brayne tells in vivid detail the story of this tragic and catastrophic event. While almost everyone knows something about those two classic disaster scenarios of the Stuart age, the Great Fire of 1666 and the Great Plague of the year before, hardly anyone knows the story of the Great Storm of 1703, the worst that has occurred in the British Isles. Winds and rain lashed the entire country and floods were reported almost everywhere. Famously, Henry Winstanley had the misfortune to be in the wooden lighthouse which he had designed on Eddystone Rocks of Plymouth on 26 November 1703. The lighthouse was destroyed and Winstanley died.
Author : Andrew C A Jampoler
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513271
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Horrible Shipwreck! written by Andrew C A Jampoler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 25, 1833, the British convict ship Amphitrite, filled with more than one hundred women prisoners and their children along with a crew of thirteen, left London for a convict colony in New South Wales. Less than a week later, all but three died when a savage storm battered their ship to pieces on the beach at Boulogne--in sight of hundreds of horrified onlookers. Inexplicably, the captain, John Hunter, had refused offers of aid from the shore. Sensational news coverage of the calamity prompted an Admiralty investigation to find out who was responsible. The suspicion was that Hunter and the surgeon aboard rejected assistance because they feared the women would escape custody. Some blamed the doctor’s wife because she had refused to go ashore in the same boat with the convicts so no boat was launched. Colorfully set in the political and social context of early 19th century Great Britain, this account of the shipwreck is peopled with a fascinating cast of characters that includes John Wilks, the Paris correspondent of a London newspaper whose reporting triggered public emotions; Lord Palmerston, the British foreign secretary; William Hamilton, the British consul who led the investigation; Sarah Austin, a British expatriate whose heroism the night of the wreck merits an award; and a Prussian prince. Drawing from government records in England, Scotland, and France, and from contemporary reports, Andrew Jampoler spins a memorable sea tale that is entirely true yet rivals the best of fiction. Readers will find this latest addition to his growing body of works firmly cements Jampoler’s reputation as a master storyteller.
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192863398
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
Author : Jürgen Klein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111714144
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Proceedings / Anglistentag 1995 Greifswald written by Jürgen Klein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836484
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Novel and the Sea written by Margaret Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Margaret Cohen moors the novel to overseas exploration and work at sea, framing its emergence as a transatlantic history, steeped in the adventures and risks of the maritime frontier. Cohen explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. Cohen shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime. A significant literary history, The Novel and the Sea challenges readers to rethink their land-locked assumptions about the novel.
Author : J. Paul Hunter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308617
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Before Novels written by J. Paul Hunter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia
Author : George A. Starr
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography written by George A. Starr and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1965 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Defoe and Spiritual Autobiography, will be forthcoming.
Author : Stuart Campbell
Publisher : Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910985716
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Daniel Defoe's Railway Journey written by Stuart Campbell and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe's Railway Journey describes the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric pensioners as they travel on every mile of railway track in the UK. Surreal and poignant by turns, Stuart Campbell describes the people they meet and the unwanted adventures that befall them. He is aided and abetted by the ghost of Daniel Defoe, writer, soldier, businessman and spy who completed his own journey in the 1720s.
Author : Aino Mäkikalli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527551520
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction written by Aino Mäkikalli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the form, structure and genre of a selection of non-fictional works by Daniel Defoe. Directing our scholarly gaze away from the much studied novels, the essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display in Defoe’s better known non-fictional texts, such as The Shortest Way with the Dissenters and A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, and some of his lesser known publications, such as his Complete English Tradesman and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. What emerges from the collection is the picture of an author who responded to early eighteenth-century debates and events with outstanding authorial skill and energy, and to whom matters of form and style were of great importance.
Author : Duck Robert Duck
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474467857
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book This Shrinking Land written by Duck Robert Duck and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The oceans are the graveyards of the lands.' Lands become eaten away by the action of the seas, and it is no surprise to find that most of the world's shorelines are in a state of erosion. The fringes of Britain, its cliffs and beaches, are shrinking, disappearing into the surrounding sea as a result of coastal flooding, erosion and landsliding. Is climate change speeding up the process; are our homes, our villages and towns, at risk? This book examines how the British coast is changing and why - and what is being done to protect this island nation. Are we doing enough? Should we abandon vulnerable towns and villages to the seas as our forebears did and relocate coastal settlements inland? These are some of the difficult and potentially emotive questions that this book explores. Blending contemporary earth science and societal themes with historical and cultural records, and a hint of myth and romance for good measure, This Shrinking Land is a fascinating study of what we must learn from the past in order to manage the future of Britain's coasts. With more than 100 illustrations, most of them in colour, this is a stunning book.
Author : William Minto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108034713
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by William Minto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1879, this biography upholds the image of Defoe as a colourful, outspoken and influential polemicist.
Author : William Minto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Daniel Defoe written by William Minto and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
