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Book Synopsis Tales of the Windships by : Donald K. Pendleton
Download or read book Tales of the Windships written by Donald K. Pendleton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a technological age, a strange and menacing phenomenon rains upon the Earth, changing people into mindless savages. While governments around the globe unite to combat this spreading infection, airships of the 1930’s are redesigned and reintroduced to the world. Because of the vessel’s size and its capability to stay airborne for weeks at a time, it is regarded as the next innovation for cruise ship/vacation travel industries, while environmentalists envision it as a solution to the world’s overpopulation problem. The windship proves its worth when the stricken become organized and rise up against the world. It is then; the windship becomes a reckoning force and Earth’s only hope for survival.
Download or read book The Last of the Wind Ships written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
Book Synopsis Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales by : Anne Macdonell
Download or read book Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales written by Anne Macdonell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fairy tales, including "Companions of the forest" and "Rags-and-Tatters."
Book Synopsis Tales of the Windship by : Fengar Gael
Download or read book Tales of the Windship written by Fengar Gael and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost and nameless girl called Nobody steps aboard an ancient Windship seeking a home somewhere in the wide world of fairy tales. Nobody begins her journey soaring over clouds towards England to become the mother of Lazy Jack. She soon realizes she's much too young to be Jack's mother, so the Windship sails for a kingdom in Germany where Nobody spins straw into gold for an imp named Rumplestiltskin, then marries the king. Alas, Nobody is certain she's not a queen but she might be someone's sister, so she sets sail for China to join The Four Foo Sisters where she acquires a neck made of iron which nearly loses. Soon Nobody decides it's more likely she has a brother, so she sails for France to meet The Yellow Dwarf who is much too greedy to be an ideal relation, and she flees once again. From France the Windship drifts to Mexico where Nobody serves as the humble servant, Esperanza, and when that doesn't suit her, Nobody escapes to Russia to become the romantic, dog-loving daughter of a nobleman. When all these characters and countries fail to bestow her true identity, Nobody confesses to possessing a name and a country after all: she's Myrtle Peaseblossom who dwells in modern times in a modern city in the United States of America.
Book Synopsis In the Wake of the Wind-ships by : Frederick William Wallace
Download or read book In the Wake of the Wind-ships written by Frederick William Wallace and published by New York : George Sully. This book was released on 1927 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bones to the Wind written by Tatiana Obey and published by Wanderlore Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Adult coming-of-age fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of The Blood Trials. Rasia is determined to destroy her old man’s record in the Forging, a trial each child must succeed to come of age. All Rasia needs to do is hunt down a gonda, hitch its tentacle ass to her windship, and haul it back home in record time. Easy. Or it would be if Rasia wasn’t stuck on the same team as Nico—a know-it-all, spoiled, grubworm who never does anything Rasia tells her to do. Nico doesn’t care about Rasia’s egotistical dreams of glory. This is her brother’s last chance to pass the Forging or her father is going to banish him from the family. She needs to scour the desert to find whatever team the bones placed him on and help him kill a gonda before it kills him. Too bad Nico and Rasia can’t get along to steer a windship straight. BONES TO THE WIND is a coming-of-age sword and sorcery fantasy adventure. Action-packed and humorous, the novel includes strong female characters, LGBTQIA+ representation, and mature themes. It is appropriate for a NA/Adult audience, 18+.
Book Synopsis The Great Windships by : Brian Stafford
Download or read book The Great Windships written by Brian Stafford and published by Xlibris Au. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great merchant sailing ships were the original apparatus of globalisation. They brought the East and West together, carrying goods back and forth to the benefit of both, and turning world's oceans into marine highways. Along them would travel all manner of goods in unheard of volumes - gold, silver, gems, spices coffee, tea and other foodstuffs - as well as ideas, attitudes, religion and disease. Besides their superior armament, the ships' masters felt they were racially and religiously superior. Their vessels became instruments of colonial conquest, aiding the rise of the West over the much more populous East. They also enabled the opium and slave trades. For better and for worse, they made the modern world. The Great Windships tells an epic story that stretches from the fragile vessels of the Age of Exploration to the mighty windjammers of the late nineteenth century. It follows how the nations of the West participated in this great adventure - their triumphs and shortcomings and the contributions each made to the development of the sailing ship. Full of drama, deceit, high-seas adventure and knowledge, this is a book for anyone who's ever gazed in awe at a mighty tall ship; or been curious as to their ability and the vital role in the evolution of the modern world.
Book Synopsis The Wheel's Kick and the Wind's Song by : A. G. Course
Download or read book The Wheel's Kick and the Wind's Song written by A. G. Course and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Six Crowns: Fair Wind to Widdershins by : Allan Jones
Download or read book The Six Crowns: Fair Wind to Widdershins written by Allan Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding the first of six legendary crowns, Trundle the lamplighter thought he could finally return to his quiet life in Port Shiverstones. But Esmeralda has other ideas. A princess with a talent for magic and mischief, she is determined to continue their quest to find the five other crowns, and to use them to unite the Sundered Lands once and for all. Accompanied by their new friend, Jack Nimble the bard, Trundle and Esmeralda sail to new lands in search of Esmeralda’s wise old aunt. Will the mysterious Aunt Millie give them the clues they need to find the next treasure? Or are they walking straight into a trap?
Download or read book A Ship's Tale written by N. Jay Young and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in post-war England, this is the story of the square-rigger Bonnie Clyde. Before this great lady meets her fate, a group of rogue sailors, unable to persuade the Admiralty to help save the vessel, pirates the ship away while she's under tow to be scuttled. Through their creative use of materials and methods, they sail her through the English Channel and the Irish Sea, hoping to deliver the ship to where she was built in Dumbarton, Scotland on the river Clyde. A former Royal Navy officer Lt. Flynn tells the story. He is lured into conspiring with a Scottish sea captain (Bowman), his British first mate (Harris) who is the inside connection to parts from the scrap yards, an Irish navigator (Edward), and a Russian master rigger (Boris). Together, the crew outsmarts the British Admiralty and Scotland Yard in their attempts to stop the ship. During their journey, the crew fights the weather and avoids modern day detection. A sympathetic public opinion, aided by an AP reporter and a host of unlikely co-conspirators become their allies. Praise from reviewers: Walter Cronkite — A Ship's Tale by N. Jay Young is “an extraordinary tale from World War II of an extraordinary sailing vessel written by a courageous and extraordinary author.” James P. Delgado, Host of National Geographic Television’s The Sea Hunters and Executive Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum — “A Ship’s Tale by N. Jay Young is compelling, true to life, and hitting straight in the heart. I can empathize with those men who love that ship—for I too have loved and lost a ship. I encourage anyone with a love of the sea as well as those in a relationship with one of us ‘ship loving’ types to read this book.” Clive Cussler — “This is a good book and would make a good film.”
Book Synopsis Wind and Wave by : Robert Charles Parsons
Download or read book Wind and Wave written by Robert Charles Parsons and published by St. John's, N.L. : Creative Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind and Wave tells of the heroism and sacrifice of our Newfoundland and Labrador seafaring ancestors.
Book Synopsis Wind Energy For the Rest of Us by : Paul Gipe
Download or read book Wind Energy For the Rest of Us written by Paul Gipe and published by Wind-Works.org. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Windship Technology by : C Satchwell
Download or read book Windship Technology written by C Satchwell and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windship Technology, Part A contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Windship Technology (WINDTECH '85), held at the University of Southampton, England, on April 24-25, 1985. The symposium provided a forum for discussing developments in windship technology, including the use of calculation methods to analyze wind propulsion on cargo ships and weather routing for wind-assisted ships. Measurements of the comparative performance of sailing rigs are also presented. Comprised of 17 chapters, this volume begins by tracing the revival of serious interest in the possible use of the wind in ship propulsion over the past decade, and giving examples of the wide range of rigs that have been developed and are now installed on ships. The reader is then introduced to Project INDOSAIL intended to develop cargo sailing vessels for the Indonesian inter-island trade. Subsequent chapters focus on sail-assist developments from 1979 to 1984; economic aspects of the application of additional sail power on small German fishing vessels; sail retrofit on inter-island vessels in Fiji; and the aerodynamics of a triangular jib-and-boom combination. The book concludes with an evaluation of two-dimensional sail shape determined by pressure and its tension. This book will appeal to government officials, academics, ship owners, and other parties with an interest in windship technology.
Book Synopsis Legendary Louisiana Outlaws by : Keagan LeJeune
Download or read book Legendary Louisiana Outlaws written by Keagan LeJeune and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.
Book Synopsis Falmouth for Orders: the Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn by : A.J. Villiers
Download or read book Falmouth for Orders: the Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn written by A.J. Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Call of the North Wind by : Marlin Bree
Download or read book Call of the North Wind written by Marlin Bree and published by Marlor Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlin Bree is the coauthor of Alone Against the Atlantic and author of Wake of the Green Storm. He is the recipient of the 2004 Boating Writers International award for journalistic excellence. He writes for Cruising World, Ensign, Northern Breezes, and Small Boat Advisor and has a monthly column in River Skipper. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. For more information on his titles, please visit www.marlinbree.com.
