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Narrative Of A Voyage To Senegal In 1816 Shipwreck
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Author :J.B. Henry Corréard, Alexander Savigny Publisher :BoD – Books on Demand ISBN 13 :3734026431 Total Pages :162 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (34 download)
Book Synopsis Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 by : J.B. Henry Corréard, Alexander Savigny
Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 written by J.B. Henry Corréard, Alexander Savigny and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 by J.B. Henry Savigny, Alexander Corréard
Download or read book Shipwrecked! written by Evan L. Balkan and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who relish the image of clinging to a sinking makeshift raft while fighting off sword-wielding and delirious mutineers wrenching the last cask of water from a sailor's sun-scorched hands (while sharks circle in famished anticipation), Shipwrecked! Adventures and Disasters at Sea is an irresistible read. A heady voyage through human suffering at the hands of unforgiving oceans, cruel captains, and implacable fate, this latest collection of Evan Balkan's impeccably researched true adventures details 14 major maritime disasters. Included are such legendary stories as the 1629 maiden voyage of the Batavia that ended in mutiny and murder, and the dramatic destruction of the majestic three-masted barquentine Endurance in ice-clogged Antarctic waters in 1912. A vast spectrum of human emotion and activity is featured in these exciting profiles, from deadly incompetence and brutish cannibalism to surprising self-sacrifice and quiet heroism.
Book Synopsis Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth by : Michael Titlestad
Download or read book Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth written by Michael Titlestad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck—the destruction of form and the advent of disorder—could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but also an abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation.
Download or read book Medusa written by J. B. Henry Savigny and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two accounts of terrible shipwreck and the struggle for survival The wreck of the Medusa is one of the most famous and infamous shipwrecks from the great age of sailing ships. The Medusa was a French frigate which struck the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of Senegal in 1816 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The vessel had to be abandoned and this was undertaken with such complete incompetence by the officers and crew that it resulted in the loss of over 150 lives in such appalling circumstances that it scandalised the general public of Europe and became an incurable embarrassment for the French government of the day. The event was even immortalised by a great artist of the period, and Gericault's 'Raft of the Medusa' endures to ensure it still remains widely known in all its horror two centuries later. The outrage of the Medusa gained particular notoriety because several of the survivors wrote harrowing accounts of their experiences of the events that took place. Two of these first hand narratives are included in this Leonaur edition making it a fascinating book for all those with an interest in sailing ships, voyages of times past and the perils of the sea.
Book Synopsis Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition by : Owen Chase
Download or read book Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition written by Owen Chase and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with art, photographs, maps, and artifacts, this is a richly illustrated edition of first mate Owen Chase's memoir of the sinking of the Essex by a sperm whale.
Book Synopsis British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850 by : Arnold Schmidt
Download or read book British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850 written by Arnold Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays in included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from the original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further. The appendices include maps of Britain, Europe, and the East and West Indies.
Book Synopsis Wreck of the Medusa by : Alexander McKee
Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-over of the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Among them was the frigate Medusa. A month after it set sail, she shank miles off of Africa's west coast, leaving the passengers to flee on lifeboats and a raft cobbled together from parts of the sinking ship. After a failed attempt by those in the lifeboats to tow the raft, it—and the more than 150 people aboard—were abandoned. This is the horrific tale, filled with suicide, murder, and cannibalism, of those left behind.
Book Synopsis Sotheran's Price Current of Literature by : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wreck of the Medusa by : Jonathan Miles
Download or read book The Wreck of the Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe). In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft that was soon cut loose by the boats that had pledged to tow it to safety. Those on the boats made it ashore and undertook a two-hundred-mile trek through the sweltering Sahara, but conditions were far worse on the drifting raft. Crazed, parched, and starving, the diminishing band fell into mayhem. When rescue arrived thirteen days later, only fifteen were alive. Among the handful of survivors were two men whose bestselling account of the maritime disaster scandalized Europe and inspired promising artist Théodore Géricault, who threw himself into a study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas in his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, The Wreck of the Medusa is “a captivating gem about art’s relation to history” (Booklist) and ultimately “a thrilling read” (The Guardian).
Book Synopsis Trübner's Bibliographical Catalogues by : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
Download or read book Trübner's Bibliographical Catalogues written by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sotheran's Price Current of Literature by :
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".] by : Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".] written by Public Free Libraries (Manchester) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence by : Library Company of Philadelphia
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue des ouvrages donnés par m. V. Schoelcher written by Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimés and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue des ouvrages donnés par M.V. Schoelcher, sénateur by :
Download or read book Catalogue des ouvrages donnés par M.V. Schoelcher, sénateur written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.) by : Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.) written by Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution by : Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
