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Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annette Brock Davis
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 0888822073
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (888 download)
Download or read book My Year Before the Mast written by Annette Brock Davis and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Annette Brock Daviss life at sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line.
Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1574093193
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America, he annotates Dana’s tale with critiques, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana’s time.
Author : John Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Dreamers Before the Mast written by John Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is the explanation of the intensity of bonding between people and ships
Author : Charles Erskine
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book 20 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST PB written by Charles Erskine and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1838, seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world. Here he shares his adventures as a sailor as he traveled to unexplored regions of the world.
Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393048136
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story written by Michael M. Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429958111
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Looking for a Ship written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Author : Stephen Bleecker Luce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Text-book of Seamanship written by Stephen Bleecker Luce and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annette Brock Davis
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459714261
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book My Year Before the Mast written by Annette Brock Davis and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, a young Canadian woman rejected the expectations of society and her upper-class family and became a crew member aboard one of the last great four-masted sailing vessels that still plied the ocean. It was not an easy task. Young Annette had to fight pressures from her family, rejection from schools of navigation, and doubts from ship owners. When she finally found a berth as an apprentice seaman, she faced hostility from officers and crew, who grumbled that she should be home "raising babies." In the end, however, Annette won their respect, taking in sails, standing night watches, hauling and coiling ropes all the tasks the men were doing, with no concession to a girl’s lesser strength. My Year Before the Mast tells the story of Annette Brock Davis’s life on the sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line. Her courage and determination to break into a closed male world are central to this book, but we cannot ignore the fact that, while this is a book about a woman’s struggle, it is also a book about the sea. Davis brings to life an era long gone, and introduces an incredible cast of characters the crew, officers, and passengers, each with his own foibles, humour, generosity, and flashes of meanness. But through it all, Annette emerges as the most remarkable character of them all.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book MOBY DICK (Modern Classics Series) written by Herman Melville and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "MOBY DICK (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: first published in 1851, considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge...
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 054592247X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Scholastic Gold) written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy . . . and is put on trial for murder!After Words material includes author Q & A, journal writing tips, and other activities that bring Charlotte's world to life!
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429969571
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Blue Latitudes written by Tony Horwitz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A Pulitzer Prize–winning author retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook: “Alternately hilarious, poignant, and insightful.” —Seattle Times Captain James Cook’s three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, vividly recounts Cook’s voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook’s adventures by following in his wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook’s embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook’s vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farm boy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history, whose voyages helped create the “global village” we know today. “With healthy doses of both humor and provocative information, the book will please fans of history, exploration, travelogues and, of course, top-notch storytelling.” —Publishers Weekly “Horwitz retells the sailor’s story and tries to re-create first contact from the point of view of the locals—Tahitians, Maoris, Aleuts, Hawaiians, and others—and judge the legacy of his landing . . . thought-provoking . . . brims with insight.” —Booklist “A rollicking read that is also a sneaky work of scholarship . . . new and unexpected insights into the man who out-discovered Columbus. A terrific book.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award winner and New York Times–bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea “Well-researched, gripping, and peppered with humorous passages.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451531254
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book."
