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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 : 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:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Booksellers, Stationers and Fancy Goods Journal of Australia and New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Nicol
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner written by John Nicol and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an autobiographical novel that tells the story of a daring sailor who sailed around the world at the end of the 18th century. The Scottish-born John Nichol explored the globe on numerous voyages, touring every inhabited continent. He is present at many of the most significant events in the history of exploration and adventure. He fought pirates, traded with Native Americans, and served in the British Navy during the American and French Revolutions. He also sailed on the first female convict ship to Australia, entertained by the king's court in Hawaii just days after Captain James Cook's murder, and encountered the harsh realities of the slave system in Jamaica.
Author : University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Author-title Catalog written by University of California, Berkeley. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1028 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 Rodgers Jewitt
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780343697020
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of John Jewitt written by John Rodgers Jewitt and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 075511728X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Limits and Renewals written by Rudyard Kipling and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limits and Renewals, Kipling's last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Dark and penetrating in tone, these are brilliant portraits of a soul in torment with some welcome relief coming in the tales of 'Aunt Ellen' and 'The Miracle of Saint Jubanus'.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Memory Hold-the-Door written by John Buchan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memory Hold-the-Door" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Madge Dresser
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848020641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Slavery and the British Country House written by Madge Dresser and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.
Author : Chouki El Hamel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139620045
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Black Morocco written by Chouki El Hamel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.
Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009953682X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Daughter of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains, a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
Author : Miriam Estensen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741141528
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Life of Matthew Flinders written by Miriam Estensen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of the life and times of Matthew Flinders, one of Australia's - and history's - greatest explorers. From the author of 'Discovery'.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : FV Éditions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Edge of the Unknown written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by FV Éditions. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1916 Arthur Conan Doyle stated his belief in Spiritualism. "The Edge of the Unknown", first published in 1930, is a collection of articles covering various aspects of this subject.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815820
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (158 download)
Download or read book We, the Navigators written by David Lewis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.
Author : Gregory S. Aldrete
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408201
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor written by Gregory S. Aldrete and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and original study of the linothorax, the linen armor worn by Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered nearly the entirety of the known world while wearing armor made of cloth. How is that possible? In Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor, Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete provide the answer. An extensive multiyear project in experimental archaeology, this pioneering study presents a thorough investigation of the linothorax, linen armor worn by the Greeks, Macedonians, and other ancient Mediterranean warriors. Because the linothorax was made of cloth, no examples of it have survived. As a result, even though there are dozens of references to the linothorax in ancient literature and nearly a thousand images of it in ancient art, this linen armor remains relatively ignored and misunderstood by scholars. Combining traditional textual and archaeological analysis with hands-on reconstruction and experimentation, the authors unravel the mysteries surrounding the linothorax. They have collected and examined all of the literary, visual, historical, and archaeological evidence for the armor and detail their efforts to replicate the armor using materials and techniques that are as close as possible to those employed in antiquity. By reconstructing actual examples using authentic materials, the authors were able to scientifically assess the true qualities of linen armor for the first time in 1,500 years. The tests reveal that the linothorax provided surprisingly effective protection for ancient warriors, that it had several advantages over bronze armor, and that it even shared qualities with modern-day Kevlar. Previously featured in documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the Canadian History Channel, as well as in U.S. News and World Report, MSNBC Online, and other international venues, this groundbreaking work will be a landmark in the study of ancient warfare.
