Old Ocean's Ferry
Author: John Colgate Hoyt
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 288
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Author: John Colgate Hoyt
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Langewiesche
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1429954590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews of the gargantuan ships, and the growth of two pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism. This is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 560
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 532
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Curtis Guild
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Diagonal White (pseud.)
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pacific Coast Committee
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Pacific Coast region of the United States contains many distinctive natural features and much unique material for scientific research. Many of the problems presented here are peculiar to the West, but in their larger aspects they have a significant bearing upon fundamental questions of world-wide concern both in the field of natural science and in the relation of these problems to the affairs of men. However interesting western materials may be, the traveler wishing to know of them has little time for study, and sources of information which might be used are frequently scattered and inaccessible. Recognizing the need for ready information on nature and science in the West, the Pacific Coast Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has considered it desirable in this year of the two expositions celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal to bring together in hand-book form concise data upon matters of general interest for the use of travelers in this region. A special committee was appointed to assemble the material and to enlist the assistance of men well informed upon the subjects to be discussed. The descriptions contained in this book have been prepared with care by specialists, and the volume is addressed to all travelers in the West who wish to know the significant features of the land through which they pass."-- c taken from Introductory Note, page v.