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Author : Nicholas Peter Isaacs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years Before the Mast, Or, Life in the Forecastle written by Nicholas Peter Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years before the mast (1911) is based on the diary Dana kept while at sea. First published in 1841, it is one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. It contains a rare and detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush revolutionized the region's culture and society. Dana chronicles stops at the ports of Monterey, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara. He describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European. The edition of the book reproduced here includes the chapter "Twenty-four Years After" prepared by Dana to accompany the "author's" edition published in 1869 as well as his son's "Seventy-six Years After," an appendix prepared in 1911.
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230443218
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast, Or, Life in the Forecastle Aboard of a Whaler and Man-Of-War written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...abstinent during the whole period of my service in the Preble, received regularly my quarterly stipend of five dollars and fortyfour ceuts; and I now supposed that when the Treble's books would be footed up, and the balance stricken, there would be some show of my last quarter's grog-money, which was near falling due, and which I desired to draw on board of the Columbus. Had the purser credited me with four dollars and twenty cents, and charged the government, he would have but carried out the principle of the regulation, and I should not have been wronged out of a single cent; but this he positively refused to do, and declared that there was no grog-money due me until the final expiration of the quarter. He, however, did not deem it-an unworthy act to charge the government four dollars and twenty cents, although he placed nothing to my credit; but for what purpose he did it I know not. All I can conscientiously say, is that between the public purse, the purser's purse, the purser, and the perseverance of the purser's steward, I was fleeced out of the sum of four dollars and twenty cents; and what made the thing still more aggravating, was that they prohibited me from drawing my grog ration on board the Columbus until the termination of the quarter, so that by the whole process of this act of peculation, I was actually defrauded of a full quarter's grog-money. It is, however, a very consoling reflection to know that, by this species of worldly prudence, purser Wilson prospered so amazingly that in the course of a few years he became possessed of wealth to the amount of an hundred thousand dollars; and that at his death he was enabled to secure the reputation of an honest man by granting munificent bequests to the support of institutions...
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
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Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Peter Isaacs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333506285
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)
Download or read book 20 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST OR LI written by Nicholas Peter Isaacs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Years Before the Mast, or Life in the Forecastle: Being the Experiences and Voyages of Nicholas Peter Isaacs; Containing an Account of His Escapes From Wild Beasts; From the Dangers of War; From British Press-Gangs; From Frequent Shipwrecks Awakenings - The Reproof - The Quarrel - Arrival at Lisbon - A Narrow Escape Brutal Treatment - Quarrel between the Cap tain and his Mate - Lameness caused by a. Blow - Dangerous Fall from the Mizen-top - Arrival at Home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.)
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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Two Years before the Mast; or, a Voice from the forecastle: being a sailor's life at sea written by Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myra C. Glenn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490184
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Jack Tar's Story written by Myra C. Glenn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Tar's Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships' logs, impressment records, to document the stories sailors told. It focuses on how mariner authors remembered/interpreted various events and experiences, including the War of 1812, the Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, British impressment, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion. This book straddles different fields of scholarship and suggests how their concerns intersect or resonate with each other: the history of print culture, the study of autobiographical writing, and the historiography of seafaring life and of masculinity in antebellum America.
Author : Nicholas Peter Isaacs
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021747334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years Before the Mast, Or Life in the Forecastle: Being the Experience and Voyages of Nicholas Peter Isaacs. Containing an Account of His Escap written by Nicholas Peter Isaacs and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take to the high seas with Nicholas Peter Isaacs and experience a life of danger, adventure, and excitement. This thrilling memoir recounts Isaacs's escapes from wild beasts, the dangers of war, and the horrors of press-gangs. Readers of all ages will be mesmerized by this seafaring tale. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202023
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Liberty on the Waterfront written by Paul A. Gilje and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought. In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature—often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice. Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.
Author : Hester Blum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606550
Total Pages : 288 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 288 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 : Jacob A. Hazen
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781436665087
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Five Years Before the Mast written by Jacob A. Hazen and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Matthew Taylor Raffety
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924017
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Republic Afloat written by Matthew Taylor Raffety and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at sea had a tendency to come ashore and force the national government to address questions about personal honor, dignity, the rights of labor, and the meaning and privileges of citizenship, often for the first time. By examining how and why merchant seamen and their officers came into contact with the law, Matthew Taylor Raffety exposes the complex relationship between brutal crimes committed at sea and the development of a legal consciousness within both the judiciary and among seafarers in this period. The Republic Afloat tracks how seamen conceived of themselves as individuals and how they defined their place within the United States. Of interest to historians of labor, law, maritime culture, and national identity in the early republic, Raffety’s work reveals much about the ways that merchant seamen sought to articulate the ideals of freedom and citizenship before the courts of the land—and how they helped to shape the laws of the young republic.
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Author : Chicago Historical Society
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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Charter, Constitution, By-laws, Membership List, and Annual Report [for the Years]. written by Chicago Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-four Years After written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher : P. F. Collier & Son
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-four Years After written by Richard Henry Dana and published by P. F. Collier & Son. This book was released on 1909 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307454959
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Perilous Fight written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, when an upstart American fleet fought off the legendary Royal Navy and established America as a world power for the first time. Through vivid re-creations of riveting and dramatic encounters at sea, Budiansky shows how this underdog coterie of seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy combined bravery and strategic brilliance to defeat the British, who had dominated the seas for more than two centuries. A gripping and essential hsitory, this is the military and political story of how the U.S. Navy became a permanent and essential part of the nation’s defense.
