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Toms Cruising Guide Philippines Borneo Singapore
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Book Synopsis Tom's Cruising Guide, Philippines, Borneo, Singapore by : TOM Bennett
Download or read book Tom's Cruising Guide, Philippines, Borneo, Singapore written by TOM Bennett and published by TOM Bennett . This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippines is one of the World's best Cruising areas for Yachtsmen . Tom's Cruising Guide is a collection of data on anchorages, marinas, weather and notes, important to the yachtsman. Compiled from the author's yacht logs, this book gives navigational tips and where the most idyllic anchorages are to be found. The best areas of PHILIPPINES, BORNEO and SINGAPORE are covered with additional notes on Indonesia. Also a section for Surfing Spots in Philippines. If you intend to sail in South East Asia, this book is a MUST.
Book Synopsis Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia: South China Sea, Philippines, Gulf of Thailand to Singapore by : Stephen Davies
Download or read book Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia: South China Sea, Philippines, Gulf of Thailand to Singapore written by Stephen Davies and published by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the North Sea and Baltic coasts of Germany and Denmark, this guide is a companion to Brian Navin's North Sea Passage Pilot and Cruising Guide to the Netherlands. It is organised on the basis of carefully selected routes which pick up most of the
Book Synopsis The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad by : Jerry Allen
Download or read book The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad written by Jerry Allen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1967 The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad is a major biography, a fruit of Jerry Allen’s ten years of extensive research making use of records located in fifteen countries, the majority never before published. The author has discovered and described in detail many of the real people and events developed by Conrad in his fiction. These includes his contact with the 1876 revolution in Columbia; the sensational Jeddah incident of 1880; the Congo episode behind Heart of Darkness; the American with whom Conrad fought a duel in Marseilles etc. Illustrated with many rare and previously unpublished photographs this book offers a fascinating narrative for the general reader and extensive material for the scholar.
Book Synopsis Makassar Sailing by : G. E. P. Collins
Download or read book Makassar Sailing written by G. E. P. Collins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makassar Sailing is the story of the author's sixteen-month stay in the shipbuilding centre of Indonesia while the boat he had ordered was being built for him. Engaging and informative, it reads as freshly today as when it was first published over fifty years ago.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-07 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorers of South-East Asia by : Victor T. King
Download or read book Explorers of South-East Asia written by Victor T. King and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical studies of six nineteenth century explorers of South-East Asia. Illus.
Book Synopsis Adventures and Encounters by : J. M. Gullick
Download or read book Adventures and Encounters written by J. M. Gullick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic cultures, strange lands, and proud monarchies confronted the Portuguese and Spaniards who came to South-East Asia in the sixteenth century with the practical objectives of securing control of the profitable trade in export of spices to Europe, and - to a lesser extent - of combating Islam, their traditional foe in the Mediterranean. The pursuit of commercial and strategic advantages brought the Dutch, English, and French on their heels. Later still, the nineteenth century saw the arrival of explorers seeking to discover the sources of the great rivers of the region, naturalists who ranged far afield to collect specimens, and literary travellers, professional photographers, married women, and other visitors who recorded their experiences. This anthology offers selections from the abundant range of European writing, expressing the fascination, the excitement, and sometimes the violence or danger of personal adventures and encounters in South-East Asia. It is the work of a talented minority who found delight in a strange world of their time, a world which is rapidly changing and vanishing. These writers have left a vivid record for the entertainment of the modern reader.
Book Synopsis Transformative Jars by : Anna Grasskamp
Download or read book Transformative Jars written by Anna Grasskamp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar – regardless of whether they contain food or drink, matter or a void, life-giving medicine or the ashes of the deceased. As ubiquitous as they may seem, such containers, storage vessels and urns are, as this book demonstrates, highly significant cultural and historical artefacts that mediate between content and environment, exterior worlds and interior enclosures, local and global, this-worldly and otherworldly realms. The contributors to this volume understand jars not only as household utensils or evidence of human civilizations, but also as artefacts in their own right. Asian jars are culturally and aesthetically defined crafted goods and as objects charged with spiritual meanings and ritual significance. Transformative Jars situates Asian jars in a global context and focuses on relationships between the filling, emptying and re-filling of jars with a variety of contents and meanings through time and throughout space. Transformative Jars brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars with backgrounds in curating, art history and anthropology to offer perspectives that go beyond archaeological approaches with detailed analyses of a broad range of objects. By looking at jars as things in the hands of makers, users and collectors, this book presents these objects as agents of change in cultures of craftsmanship and consumption.
Download or read book Twin Flower written by G. E. P. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, culture and traditions of Bali and the Balinese are seen through the eyes of an Englishman who has decided to break away from the white man's East, and whose love affair with Mas - the twin flower of this story - is destined to end in tragedy.
Book Synopsis The General Retires and Other Stories by : Huy Thiệp Nguyễn
Download or read book The General Retires and Other Stories written by Huy Thiệp Nguyễn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first appeared in 1987, the title story of this collection of stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep caused a sensation in Vietnam. Not since the Communist revolution had readers found as stark and compelling a view of their world as The General Retires offered them. Written in spare, succinct prose, it captures the despair of an old general who, after many years of devoted service to his country, is alienated by the emptiness of the society into which he retires and ultimately flees. Nguyen probes similar themes in the stories that follow, from Cun, the moving tale of a crippled beggar, to A Drop of Blood, a dark history of a family set against decades of war and revolution. With eight powerfully written stories--all available in English for the first time--and including an introduction by Greg Lockhart that traces the varied traditions of Vietnamese literature to the present day, this collection offers unprecedented insight into a society trying to overcome and understand years of pain and civil strife.
Download or read book Pacific Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden Weapons written by Basil Collier and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents and derivative literature now available, and I admire the judgement that is evident throughout the book. Within the limits of treating the widest aspects of Intelligence in World War II in a small compass, Mr Collier has told the whole truth, fortunately without it turning out to be very unfavorable; and in the lessons to be drawn from it we indeed have one element of security if properly applied'.Basil Collier throws fresh light on the low priority given to Intelligence between the wars; the tendency of ministers and senior officials to rely less on intelligence reports than their own individual hunches; the failure to foresee the invasion of Norway; why, even with the aid of Enigma it was impossible to turn the scales in Crete, and why the Americans, though privy to some of Japans most closely guarded secrets, allowed the Pearl Harbor attack to take them by surprise.
Download or read book Philippine Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bastard Behind the Lines by : Tom Gilling
Download or read book Bastard Behind the Lines written by Tom Gilling and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's great World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.' Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a prisoner he escaped twice, first from Changi and later from the infamous Sandakan POW camp in Borneo. After paddling a dugout canoe across open sea, he fought for two years with American-led Filipino guerrillas, his exploits so audacious the Japanese put a price on his head. At the helm of his 26-foot whaleboat, the Bastard, McLaren sailed brazenly into enemy-held harbours, wreaking havoc with his mortar and machine guns before heading back out to sea. In early 1945 he joined Australia's secretive Z Special Unit, parachuting into Borneo to carry out reconnaissance and organise anti-Japanese resistance ahead of Allied landings. He cheated death on numerous occasions and saved his own life by removing his appendix without anaesthetic, using 'two large dessert spoons' and a razor blade. Drawing on Allied and Japanese wartime documents, Bastard Behind the Lines brings the story of a courageous digger vividly to life and throws light on a rarely explored aspect of Australia's Pacific war.
Download or read book Travellers' Singapore written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains a representative range of writings on Singapore, from its founding by Stamford Raffles in 1819 to the Japanese conquest in 1942, to illustrate those features of Singapore which captured the Western imagination
Book Synopsis The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All known Conrad letters from the years 1917-1919.
Download or read book Pacific Islands Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
