The Last of the Wind Ships
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0393050335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
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Men, Ships, and the Sea
Author: Alan Villiers
Publisher: Caxton Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDen amerikanske Kaptajn A. Villiers med erfaring fra sejlads i alverdens forskellige skibstyper beskriver her skibenes og skibstypernes udvikling fra Oldtidens Ægypten til den moderne tid med et væld af instruktive tegninger, diagrammer, kort og ill. efter malerier.
Dare the Wind
Author: Tracey Fern
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1466860146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEllen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down around the tip of Cape Horn, and into San Francisco, where the Gold Rush was well under way. In a time when few women even accompanied their husbands onboard, Ellen Prentiss navigated their ship to set the world record for speed along that route. A Margaret Ferguson Book
How to Avoid Huge Ships
Author: John W. Trimmer
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou are the owner-captain of a luxury fifty-foot trawler motoring across the bay with your family and a few friends one balmy summer evening. Off in the distance, beyond the bridge spanning the waterway, you can make out the lights and shape of a containership moving down the channel. Have you ever wondered what action you must take to keep clear of that fast-approaching ship? This book will tell you how to do so quickly. Conscientious skippers are wise to read this book and discover if a ship's radar will pick up a small boat at night. It is fascinating to learn what is taking place on the bridge or down in the engine room of one of these leviathans as it heads your way. Can it be stopped before it hits you? Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones by reading this book written for the private boat owner/captain.
Ship of Magic
Author: Robin Hobb
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2003-12-30
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 0553900250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book in a seafaring fantasy trilogy that George R. R. Martin has described as “even better than the Farseer Trilogy—I didn’t think that was possible.” Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the Vivacia, the ship is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. Don’t miss the magic of the Liveship Traders Trilogy: SHIP OF MAGIC • MAD SHIP • SHIP OF DESTINY
The Last Grain Race
Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007597833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1956.
The Last Ship
Author: William Brinkley
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0698156676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer. The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?
The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on Board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, Anno 1675 to 1679
Author: Henry Teonge
Publisher:
Published: 1825
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories of the Ships
Author: Lewis Ransome Freeman
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChapman Great Sailing Ships of the World
Author: Otmar Schäuffelen
Publisher: Hearst Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781588163844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome sailing with Chapman, on the pages of an expansive, attractively illustrated reference to large, and frequently famous, sailboats from around the globe. Enthusiasts will find completely up-to-date information on these extremely popular boats, more than 450 color photos, and descriptions of different types of sailing ships and rigging. Each craft listed features a full-color picture, details, and statistics, accompanied by facts and figures on its home port, the year it was built, the names of the owner and crew, plus rigging, tonnage, mast, sails, and use.
