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Book Synopsis Voices from the Lower Deck by : Monique Layton
Download or read book Voices from the Lower Deck written by Monique Layton and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Lower Deck examines the role of folklore as the instrument of integration and bonding for the ordinary seafarer during the Age of Sail. Mainly based on contemporary sailors narratives and historical and folkloric texts, the book evokes common themes: the harsh environment, the cruel discipline, the brutal way of life, and the release of onshore carousing and whoring, but also the coordinated work and effort of daily tasks and the tremendous pride of seeing themselves as unique men against a background of landlubbers. The psychological and physical survival of these disparate men from many origins depended on their rapid integration into the common culture––the folklore and the folkways––of what historians have called “the wooden world.”
Book Synopsis Thirty Years from Home, Or A Voice from the Main Deck by : Samuel Leech
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:
Book Synopsis Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 by : B. Lavery
Download or read book Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 written by B. Lavery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea behind this volume, according to its editor Brian Lavery, was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society, notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91, 1951, ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107, 1965, ed C C Lloyd.) The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because, stated Brian Lavery, ‘there are no suitable documents from earlier periods’ and closes in 1815, when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained, especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy, ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages, often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time, and the ways in which they were fed, clothed, allocated space for eating and sleeping, at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations, Captain’s Orders, Medical Journals, discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time.
Book Synopsis Voices from the Titanic by : Geoff Tibballs
Download or read book Voices from the Titanic written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by historians, novelists and film producers alike, but no account is as graphic or revealing as those who were actually there. Through survivors' tales, and contemporary newspaper reports from both sides of the Atlantic, here are eye-witness accounts full of details that range from poignant to humorous, stage by stage from the Liner's glorious launch in Belfast to the sombre sea burial services of those who perished on her first and only voyage. In the book, the voices of the survivors record their own stories, as well as the official records, press reports and investigations into what went wrong that night.
Book Synopsis Voices from the Bottom of the South China Sea the Untold Story of America's Largest Chinese Emigrant Disaster by : Robert S. Wells
Download or read book Voices from the Bottom of the South China Sea the Untold Story of America's Largest Chinese Emigrant Disaster written by Robert S. Wells and published by Fortis Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Bottom of the South China Sea is the remarkable, untold illustration of the bonds between Americans and Chinese, brought to life in the true story of a deadly 1874 shipwreck off Southern China that killed hundreds and scattered treasure in the South China Sea. When a midnight coal fire burst across the deck of the SS Japan, the Chinese emigrants perished, just hours away from being reunited with their families after years. Voices captures the Chinese passengers' lives in California, where they built America's railroads, mined its silver, and grew its food, only to see public sentiment turn against them with an anti- immigrant, racist fervor. Their lives were entrusted to a veteran China Sea trader-the erstwhile Captain Edward Warsaw-an American captain whose vigilance and courage in command of the world's largest wooden passenger vessel were sorely tested when his ship caught fire and sank on that fateful return voyage to China. Nearly 400 of his Chinese passengers on the Japan, a side-wheel steamship that Mark Twain called a "perfect palace of a ship," would perish. Cut off from their lifeboats by the raging fire, many would drown when they were forced to jump into the sea, only to be dragged down with their money belts of gold, their earning from their years spent laboring in America. This amazing history involves a shipwreck, pirates, and lost treasure. But most of all, Voices captures the shared passions, ambitions, and animosities of Chinese and Americans seeking fortune in nineteenth century California. With the lost records of the event recently discovered and pieced together by the author, a former navy captain who commanded a warship in the waters where Captain Warsaw's ship went down, this book allows the lost voices to tell their story to the world from the bottom of the South China Sea.
Book Synopsis Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 by : Brian Lavery
Download or read book Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 written by Brian Lavery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume explores the Royal Navy which had most of its greatest triumphs in the decades up to 1815, but has received relatively little study of its social life and shipboard administration, beyond popular myth and sensational accounts. This volume starts with the formal structure of naval discipline, with Admiralty instructions and captains' orderbooks. It then looks at how things really happened, using diaries, medical journals, petitions, court martial reports and even the menu book of a semi-literate steward. It reveals many strong characters and colourful incidents of shipboard life, while providing material for study.
Download or read book Cave of Voices written by William Gamble and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeron Kline is your usual 15-year old amnesia victim. After waking up in the hospital, with the past two years of his memory missing Aeron is plagued with mysterious visions and a vague voice that warns him with the words This is your second chance, make the most of it. With no way to regain his lost past he pushes on with his life. But it would seem that fate has a different plan for Aeron when a year later he begins to see mysterious strangers that begin to trigger more of the visions, and to make things even stranger he comes face to face with the urban legend of his hometown. The skeleton man Everet- who is somehow connected to his missing memories- and who awakens a dormant power inside Aeron. Now, with his newfound powers Aeron Kline must fight for his missing fragments and possibly something greater; the fate of an entire world.
Book Synopsis Voice of the Trees by : Mickie Mueller
Download or read book Voice of the Trees written by Mickie Mueller and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a rustling of branches, a whisper on the wind, the wise old trees of the Celtic world share their secrets with those who seek counsel. This beautifully crafted oracle sheds light on the mysterious teachings of the ogham, the sacred Celtic tree alphabet. Each card's powerful, evocative imagery highlights a specific tree, its associated symbolism and lore, spiritual traits, divinatory meaning, and ogham letter. This multifaceted Celtic oracle can be used to create meditations and affirmations, work tree magic, and embark on a wondrous journey of self-transformation filled with healing, prosperity, and love. Boxed kit includes a 25-card deck and a 288-page book
Download or read book The Daedalus written by G.I. Noah and published by Raymond Moore. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turns out... In space... People can hear you scream... Euphrates Miondor had it all. Good looks, good job, designer clothes, luxurious condominium and she was an extremely prolific serial killer. The Daedalus is Space Force Global's latest class of Starsplorer propelled by a Faren Fusion Drive.The Virtual Engine Synaptic Simulation Associate is a first gen bio-organic computer processor powered by a harvested human brain.Through a series of fortunate events Euphrates brain becomes the ships VESSA organ. The Daedalus 7 are SFGs' elite female crew and mapping of the Kuiper Belt on the outer edge of the solar system is SFGs' most perilous mission since the Orion's Eye disaster. Euphrates desire to kill remains strong but with no physical body she needs a plan to execute her latest murderous mission. She has plan... A good one! Who of the Daedalus 7 will survive?
Book Synopsis Voice from the Bow by : Bruno Temperoni
Download or read book Voice from the Bow written by Bruno Temperoni and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “VOCE DI PRORA”, Diary of a Sailor The author, Bruno Temperoni, in an autobiographical book, recalls his years in service for the Italian Royal Navy during the Second World War – Readers are invited to be witnesses of the years of military service of a veteran during World War II that render him an involuntary participant in the history and the makings of a new free world. In Voice from the Bow, Bruno Temperoni meticulously compiles in a diary, his military experiences in the Italian Royal Navy taking the audience to the battlefront in a simple but skillful way. Enlisted in May 1938, Temperoni recounts daily episodes of his life as a sailor on board of vessel “Freccia”, assigned to a squadron of the Navy. During his twenty-eight months of military service, the author measures up not only to the tragedy of the war, by participating in the Battles of the Mediterranean against England, but also in those clashes with his comrades and superiors that inevitably involve him in a complex, coarse everyday life. Voice from the Bow is not only the ‘diary of a veteran’. Temperoni, in his book narrates episodes of courage and heroic sacrifice of his comrades by proclaiming and honoring their actions. Written originally in Italian it gathers a part of history that should not be forgotten.
Download or read book Collier's written by Hansi and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City's Voice written by Devorah Knaff and published by Santa Ana River Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays, poems and short stories published between 1868 and 1875 in The Overland Monthly, California's first successful literary journal. Included is the work of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ina Coolbrith, Ambrose Bierce and Joaquin Miller"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Voice of the Past by : Paul Thompson
Download or read book Voice of the Past written by Paul Thompson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral sources by the historian. The author offers advice on designing a project; discusses reliability of oral evidence; considers the context of the development of historical writing including it's social function.; and looks at memory, the self and the use of drama and therapy. This new edition has been substantially revised and updated and includes an expanded discussion of narrative approaches and new technology used in the recording of information. Reviews from the second edition of Voice of the Past: Oral History 'Paul Thompson is a passionate and convincing crusader in the cause of oral history' The Times Educational Supplement 'It must be rare in modern academic life to replace your own unrivalled book after 10 years with an even better one, but he has done so. His new material on memory and the self, and on drama as therapy, should be read by literary critics in their infancy.' The Independent '...the first book to combine a theory of oral history, the technical processes involved, and a road map of where oral evidence fits into the landscape of western historiography.' American Historical Review
Book Synopsis Voices of the Confederate Navy by : R. Thomas Campbell
Download or read book Voices of the Confederate Navy written by R. Thomas Campbell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work is a collection of works by Southern naval participants. The narratives traverse the field from the fond and not-so-fond memories to the carefully worded reports of an officer claiming a victory or the loss of a ship. The writings lend information as one tries to understand what personnel faced during this time in history"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Voice of the Past by : Paul Thompson
Download or read book The Voice of the Past written by Paul Thompson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures. At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow. In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oral evidence in comparison with other sources and considers the social context of its development. He looks at the relationship between memory, the self and identity. He traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of a movement which has become international, with notably strong developments in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and the Far East, despite resistance from more conservative academics. This new edition combines the classic text of The Voice of the Past with many new sections, including especially the worldwide development of different forms of oral history and the parallel memory boom, as well as discussions of theory in oral history and of memory, trauma and reconciliation. It offers a deep social and historical interpretation along with succinct practical advice on designing and carrying out a project, The Voice of the Past remains an invaluable tool for anyone setting out to use oral history and life stories to construct a more authentic and balanced record of the past and the present.
Download or read book Wizard Undercover written by K. E. Mills and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There may be trouble ahead . . . Wedding bells are ringing for the constantly battling nations of Splotze and Borovnik, and the upcoming royal nuptials could at last put an end to their dangerous hostilities. But in a development that hardly bodes well, one of Gerald's fellow janitors goes missing -- after delivering a dire warning of danger surrounding the marriage treaty. So Gerald must embark on a dangerous mission to uncover the troublemakers, before wedded bliss becomes international war. But going undercover isn't as easy as it looks, even with Melissande and Emmerabiblia for camouflage. Soon Gerald finds himself fighting for his life as well as world peace.
Book Synopsis THE VOICE OF PITY FOR SOUTH AMERICA by :
Download or read book THE VOICE OF PITY FOR SOUTH AMERICA written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
