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Author : John Nicol
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner written by John Nicol and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1822 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Nicol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner written by John Nicol and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219110X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling true story of an eighteenth-century sailor’s extraordinary voyages, compiled by the celebrated scientist and historian. In his many voyages, the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent while witnessing and participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure in the eighteenth century. He traded with Native Americans on the St. Lawrence River and hunted whales in the Arctic Ocean. He fought for the British navy against American privateers in the Atlantic Ocean and Napoléon’s navy in the Mediterranean Sea. En route to Australia he met the love of his life, Sarah Whitlam, a convict bound for the Botany Bay prison colony, who bore his son before duty forced them apart forever. At the end of his journeys, John Nicol returned to his homeland and a life of obscurity and poverty, until the publisher John Howell met him one day while he was wandering the streets of Edinburgh, searching for dregs of coal to fuel his hearth. After hearing the fascinating stories of Nicol’s seafaring experiences, Howell convinced him to write his memoirs—the publication of which eventually earned Nicol enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his days. Tim Flannery has edited Nicol’s original text, providing accompanying footnotes and an introduction (updated for this North American edition) that give historical context to the sailor’s exploits. “Lively . . . Exciting . . . Nicol has made a lasting place for himself in the literature of the sea and the ships he loved so deeply.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
Author : John Nicol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862419929
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, 1776-1801 written by John Nicol and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work renders the story of a man whom history has nearly forgotten. In his many voyages the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent and participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure in the 18th century.
Author : John Nicol
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Farrar & Rhinehart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner written by John Nicol and published by New York ; Toronto : Farrar & Rhinehart. This book was released on 1937 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802191088
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Birth of Sydney written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, provides a stunning portrait of Australia’s cultural capital. Sydney, Australia, is one of the world’s most beautiful and fascinating cities, home to over five million people and a popular tourist destination. In The Birth of Sydney, scientist and historian Tim Flannery blends the writings of Australian explorers, settlers, leaders, journalists, and visitors to construct a compelling narrative history of the great metropolis—from its founding as a remote penal colony of the British Empire in 1788 to its emergence as a vital trading power in the nineteenth century. Together, their voices and experiences create an unforgettable panoramic portrait of the early life of the majestic harbor city.
Author : Albert J. Schütz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824816377
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Voices of Eden written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did outsiders first become aware of the Hawaiian language? How were they and Hawaiians able to understand each other? How was Hawaiian recorded and analyzed in the early decades after European contact Albert J. Schutz provides illuminating answers to these and other questions about Hawaii's postcontact linguistic past. The result is a highly readable and accessible account of Hawaiian history from a language-centered point of view. The author also provides readers with an exhaustive analysis and critique of nearly every work ever written about Hawaiian.
Author : John Nicol
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921961694
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Life and Adventures 1776-1801: Text Classics written by John Nicol and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1822, this is the extraordinary story of John Nicol, a sailor who circled the globe twice, fought Napoleon’s navy, was in Hawaii just after Cook’s death, and went to Port Jackson on a Second Fleet vessel with its cargo of female convicts.
Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300151802
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Liberty's Dawn written by Emma Griffin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom./divDIV /divDIVThis rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers./div
Author : Susann Liebich
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303085339X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Shipboard Literary Cultures written by Susann Liebich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.
Author : James Davey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217323
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book In Nelson's Wake written by James Davey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An “impressive” account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat (International Journal of Military History). Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy’s task, the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade, ceasing only with Napoleon’s final surrender. In this dramatic account of naval contributions between 1803 and 1815, James Davey offers original and exciting insights into the Napoleonic wars and Britain’s maritime history. Encompassing Trafalgar, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, the final campaign against Napoleon, and many lesser known but likewise crucial moments, the book sheds light on the experiences of individuals high and low, from admiral and captain to sailor and cabin boy. The cast of characters also includes others from across Britain—dockyard workers, politicians, civilians—who made fundamental contributions to the war effort, and in so doing, both saved the nation and shaped Britain’s history.
Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: H-L written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Farr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000649881
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Who Was William Hickey? written by James R. Farr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood. Moreover, this book reasserts the importance of the individual in history. It explains how personal narratives reveal the individual as a purposeful social actor pursuing particular objectives, but framed by cultural and social contexts, in this case by eighteenth-century London and Imperial India. The author of this autobiography, William Hickey, projects a sense of self formed by a combination of an interiorized self-consciousness (an awareness of himself as an autonomous individual, although not one prone to deep self-reflection) and a socially-turned self-fashioning. Like so many autobiographers of his time, Hickey’s self is realized through the production of a narrative, his self fixed and defined through the act of writing. As he wrote his memoirs, Hickey was engaged in purposeful textual representation to satisfy his perceived sense of place in that culture (above all, as a gentleman) while tacitly reflecting the constraints of that culture imposed upon the form and content of the text.
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book A List of Works Relating to Scotland written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1716 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Author : Nicholas Rogers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276231
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Blood Waters written by Nicholas Rogers and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.
Author : Alan Atkinson
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742242421
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Europeans in Australia written by Alan Atkinson and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all - and even-handed. The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume One, The Beginning, examines the forces that led to the penal colony at Port Jackson and the first twenty-five years of white settlement. Atkinson examines, as few historians have done before, the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking. It began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. The purpose of settlement might seem uninspiring, but the fact that this was to be a community of convicts and ex-convicts raised profound questions about the common rights of the subject, the responsibility of power, and the possibility of imaginative attachment to a land of exile. Atkinson explores the imagery and technique of European power as it made its first impact on Australia. He argues that the Europeans were not simply conquerors motivated by brutal or short-term colonising imperatives. The Europeans' culture was ancient and infinitely complex, thickly woven with ideas about spirituality, authority, self, and land, all of which influenced the development of Australia. The possession of land and conflict with Aboriginal peoples were at issue, but so were the ancient habits of Europeans themselves. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history, The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark's A History of Australia.
