A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Horace Marryat

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781331834069

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Excerpt from A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, Vol. 1 of 2 August 3rd, 1858. - We arrived at last, all safe and sound, after a rough and tiresome passage. I really imagined we should never get under weight, for at the eleventh hour came a cargo of oil-barrels, already marked down upon the bill of lading. There was no help for it, embarked they must be; so we lost the tide, and, after encountering the tail of a storm off the Hanoverian coast, arrived too late to mount the river to Hamburg, had to wait some nine hours till there was sufficient water to cross the bar, and then sailed up the Elbe. On our passage we steamed by a brig, all up on end, a total wreck; and, later, a second, deep embedded in a sand-bank - the results of last Saturday's storm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Jutland

Jutland

Author: N. J. M. Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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The authoritative work on the great sea battle of World War I.


Jutland, 1916

Jutland, 1916

Author: Nigel Steel

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 1780225733

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Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War. On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and expectations on both sides were high. For the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, there was the chance to win another Trafalgar. For the German High Seas Fleet, there was the opportunity to break the British blockade and so change the course of the war. But Jutland was a confused and controversial encounter. Tactically, it was a draw; strategically, it was a British victory. Naval historians have pored over the minutiae of Jutland ever since. Yet they have largely ignored what the battle was actually like for its thousands of participants. Full of drama and pathos, of chaos and courage, JUTLAND, 1916 describes the sea battle in the dreadnought era from the point of view of those who were there.


Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark (Volume 1 & 2)

Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark (Volume 1 & 2)

Author: Jens-Henrik Bech

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 2018-06-04

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 8793423306

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This two volume monograph about the region of Thy in the early Bronze Age provides a high resolution archaeological and ecological model of the organisation of landscape, settlements and households during the period 1500-1100 BC. Bordering the North Sea to the west, and the calmer waters of the Limfjord to the east, the region of Thy in Denmark experienced four centuries of intense economic and demographic expansion. By combining results from environmental and economic research (pollen and palaeo-botanical analyses) with intensive field surveys and excavations of farmsteads with exceptional preservation, it has been possible to open a window to the changes that transformed Bronze Age society and its environment during a few centuries of exceptional expansion and wealth consumption. The results from this interdisciplinary venture made it possible to link together the histories of local farmsteads with the wider regional and global history of the Bronze Age in North-western Europe during this period. Here is much to feed on for students and researchers of the Bronze Age alike.


Daily life at the turn of the neolithic

Daily life at the turn of the neolithic

Author: Simonsen John

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 2017-08-02

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 8793423217

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This book provides unique insights into Late Neolithic life, its organization and its economy, made possible by an altogether exceptional collection of recent archaeological findings in South Scandinavia from longhouses with sunken floors dating from this period. Through analysis and interpretation of these comprehensive materials, Danish archaeologist John Simonsen presents brand new findings essential for many wider interpretations of this crucial and fascinating transitional period from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age (c. 2350- c. 1600 BC). The basic materials presented and discussed in Daily Life at the Turn of the Neolithic were mainly found during new archaeological excavations in the central part of the Limfjord region of Denmark, but, in terms of the wider perspectives and considerations, often relate to the entire region and in several respects also to South Scandinavia - and beyond.