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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Waterman's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David S. Cecelski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807869724
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Waterman's Song written by David S. Cecelski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author : Matthew Goldman
Publisher : Breakaway Books
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Journals of Constant Waterman written by Matthew Goldman and published by Breakaway Books. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boats and life This is an unforgettable collection of ninety short tales about the boating Matthew Goldman has done in his life—in sailboats, canoes, rowboats, and other floating craft. All these memoirs deal with the water—from the puddle to the sea. They wander, as reflective as a sandy-bottomed brook. They linger, as wistful as an idle boat in summer. They revel, as jubilant as broaching porpoises. Who will want to read about Constant Waterman? Anyone who’s ever paused to watch a water strider; anyone who’s ever stood and listened to the sea; anyone who leans when they see a sloop heel; anyone who hopes to find a message in a bottle. Here is that message. Unfold it carefully, read it aloud. Read about boats; read about passages; read about islands; read about the rain. Learn about a murder in the woods by the river; learn about restoring a wooden boat. Hear about sailors, boat builders, ferrymen; hear about canoeing amid the marshes. The best part about it? You don’t have to spend your time sanding and varnishing. You don’t need to don any foul weather gear. You don’t need to know a bowline from a boom vang, or know how to pole a canoe. Here is the world of Constant Waterman: wry, introspective, intimate, impassioned. Turn another page. You may find a lighthouse, you may find a swan. You’ll hear the hoarse cadence of the sea grinding shingle, the wrinkling song of a stream through the forest, the complaint of the wind in your standing rigging. Listen. *Includes 50 beautiful pen-and-ink drawings by the author. *
Author : David Davis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803254776
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Waterman written by David Davis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America’s first superstar Olympic swimmer. The original “human fish” set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade; his rivalry with Johnny Weissmuller transformed competitive swimming from an insignificant sideshow into a headliner event. Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of “surf-riding,” an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. Standing proudly on his traditional wooden longboard, he spread surfing from Australia to the Hollywood crowd in California to New Jersey. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson. Kahanamoku’s connection to his homeland was equally important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War II and as a globetrotting “Ambassador of Aloha” afterward; he died not long after Hawaii attained statehood. As one sportswriter put it, Duke was “Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey combined down here.” In Waterman, award-winning journalist David Davis examines the remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water. Purchase the audio edition.
Author : Barbara Mitchell
Publisher : Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Waterman's Child written by Barbara Mitchell and published by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Annie begins with her great grandmother and tells about her family's life as fishermen on Chesapeake Bay.
Author : Michael Loynd
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 059335706X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Watermen written by Michael Loynd and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal) “Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat . . . captures the imagination of the public. . . . Add The Watermen by Michael Loynd to this illustrious list.”—Swimming World Winner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Paragon Award and the Buck Dawson Authors Award In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches hell-bent on building a U.S. swim program that could rival the British Empire’s seventy-year domination of the sport. Interwoven with the story of Charles’s efforts to overcome his family’s disgrace is the compelling history of the struggle to establish the modern Olympics in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy. When the powerful British Empire finally legitimized the Games by hosting the fourth Olympiad in 1908, Charles’s hard-fought rise climaxed in a gold-medal race where British judges prepared a trap to ensure the American upstart’s defeat. Set in the early days of a rapidly changing twentieth century, The Watermen—a term used at the time to describe men skilled in water sports—tells an engrossing story of grit, of the growth of a major new sport in which Americans would prevail, and of a young man’s determination to excel.
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1238 pages
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Download or read book The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1732 pages
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Download or read book Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1179 pages
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Download or read book Ladies' Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 080415161X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Watermen written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener’s The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s classic Chesapeake, this enthralling novel has a unity and a spirit all its own, telling the story of the bay and its wildlife, but especially of the watermen, from their favorite pastimes to their rivalries in hunting, oystering, racing, and fighting. Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly conceived, The Watermen is a narrative and visual feast from one of America’s favorite storytellers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Chesapeake “Another of James Michener’s great mines of narrative, character and lore.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . an emotionally and intellectually appealing book.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Michener’s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.”—Associated Press
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Total Pages : 750 pages
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Download or read book Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Waterman
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581576366
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness written by Guy Waterman and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic environmental call to action 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Wilderness Act—the landmark piece of legislation to set aside and protect pristine parts of the American landscape. This anniversary edition of Wilderness Ethics should help put the many issues surrounding wilderness in focus.
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Total Pages : 1380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
