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Author : Samuel Leech
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thirty Years from Home, Or A Voice from the Main Deck written by Samuel Leech and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Leech
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338512669X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Thirty Years From Home, Or a Voice From the Main Deck, Being the Experience of Samuel Leech written by Samuel Leech and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author : Samuel Leech
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck written by Samuel Leech and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of Samuel Leech, a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of thirteen, when Lord William FitzRoy agreed to take Samuel into his frigate HMS Macedonian, as a favor to FitzRoy's sister Frances, the wife of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, Leech being the son of one of her servants.
Author : Samuel LEECH
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Thirty Years from Home; or, a Voice from the main deck ... With notes by Ebenezer Collins written by Samuel LEECH and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leech Samuel Leech
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429022043
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Thirty Years from Home written by Leech Samuel Leech and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cordingly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 158234468X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Billy Ruffian written by David Cordingly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a British warship that played a key role during the wartime years of the Napoleonic era describes the ship's service in three crucial sea battles--the Glorious First of June (1794), the first action against revolutionary France; the 1798 battle of the Nile; and the battle of Trafalgar (1805)--as well as its role in Napoleon's ultimate surrender. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Total Pages : 804 pages
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Download or read book The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Guyatt
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541645642
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Hated Cage written by Nicholas Guyatt and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading historian reveals the never-before-told story of a doomed British prison and the massacre of its American prisoners of war After the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict was over but they had been left to rot by their government. Although they shared a common nationality, the men were divided by race: nearly a thousand were Black, and at the behest of the white prisoners, Dartmoor became the first racially segregated prison in US history. The Hated Cage documents the extraordinary but separate communities these men built within the prison—and the terrible massacre of nine Americans by prison guards that destroyed these worlds. As white people in the United States debated whether they could live alongside African Americans in freedom, could Dartmoor’s Black and white Americans band together in captivity? Drawing on extensive new material, The Hated Cage is a gripping account of this forgotten history.
Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521762359
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
Author : Dean King
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504038975
Total Pages : 1669 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The World of Patrick O'Brian written by Dean King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four volumes of history and biography for fans of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, with lore on the Royal Navy and much more. What is a sandgrouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Adm. Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Capt. Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O’Brian knew the past. His twenty Aubrey–Maturin novels, beginning with Master and Commander (1969), are distinguished by deep characterization, heart-stopping naval combat, and an attention to detail that enriches and enlivens his stories. In the revised edition of A Sea of Words, Dean King and his collaborators dive into Jack Aubrey’s world. In the revised edition of Harbors and High Seas, King details not just where Aubrey and Maturin went, but how they got there. Packed with maps and illustrations from the greatest age of sail, it is an incomparable reference for devotees of O’Brian’s novels and anyone who has dreamed of climbing aboard a warship, as well as a captivating portrait of life on the sea during a time when nothing stood between man and ocean but grit, daring, and a few creaking planks of wood. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth. Such a massive navy required the service of more than 100,000 men—from officers to deckhands to surgeons. Their stories are collected in Every Man Will Do His Duty. The inspiration for the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester, these twenty-two memoirs and diaries, edited by Dean King, provide a true portrait of life aboard British warships during one of the most significant eras of world history. Patrick O’Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Capt. Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. But despite his fame, little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author, whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography. King traces O’Brian’s personal history from his beginnings as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey–Maturin series. What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O’Brian’s imagination. Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed is a penetrating and insightful examination of one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists.
Author : Kevin Gilmartin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064783
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Sociable Places written by Kevin Gilmartin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The American in England. By the author of "A year in Spain" i.e. Alexander Slidell, afterwards Slidell Mackenzie written by AMERICAN. and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521366540
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Conspiracy and Romance written by Robert S. Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatized the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived "America" as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the historical conditions of the culture. The fear that reputed conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread; Levine illuminates the influence of such fears on the works of major romance writers during this period.
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book The Sailor's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hester Blum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606550
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The View from the Masthead written by Hester Blum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines the first-person narratives of working sailors, from little-known sea tales to more famous works by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Henry Dana. In their narratives, sailors wrote about how their working lives coexisted with--indeed, mutually drove--their imaginative lives. Even at leisure, they were always on the job site. Blum analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea. She argues that the extent of sailors' literacy and the range of their reading were unusual for a laboring class, belying the popular image of Jack Tar as merely a swaggering, profane, or marginal figure. As Blum demonstrates, seamen's narratives propose a method for aligning labor and contemplation that has broader applications for the study of American literature and history.
Author : Jill B. Gidmark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507700
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes written by Jill B. Gidmark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea and Great Lakes have inspired American authors from colonial times to the present to produce enduring literary works. This reference is a comprehensive survey of American sea literature. The scope of the encyclopedia ranges from the earliest printed matter produced in the colonies to contemporary experiments in published prose, poetry, and drama. The book also acknowledges how literature gives rise to adaptations and resonances in music and film and includes coverage of nonliterary topics that have nonetheless shaped American literature of the sea and Great Lakes. The alphabetical arrangement of the reference facilitates access to facts about major literary works, characters, authors, themes, vessels, places, and ideas that are central to American sea literature. Each of the several hundred entries is written by an expert contributor and many provide bibliographical information. While the encyclopedia includes entries for white male canonical writers such as Herman Melville and Jack London, it also gives considerable attention to women at sea and to ethnically diverse authors, works, and themes. The volume concludes with a chronology and a list of works for further reading.
Author : William S. Dudley
Publisher : Department of the Navy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Naval War of 1812: 1812 written by William S. Dudley and published by Department of the Navy. This book was released on 1985 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Porter and Thomas Macdonough became heroes, and their ships, Constitution, United States, Niagara, Essex, and Saratoga, symbols for an American public proud of its navy. The three volumes will again call to mind the famous naval actions and events of our second war of independence with Great Britain"--Introduction.
