The Long Ships

The Long Ships

Author: Frans G. Bengtsson

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 159017416X

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A beloved Viking saga and masterpiece of historical fiction, The Long Ships is a high spirited adventure that stretches from Scandinavia to Spain, England, Ireland, and beyond. Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson’s hero, Red Orm—canny, courageous, and above all lucky—is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take this place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination. Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson’s book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.


In the Days of the Tall Ships

In the Days of the Tall Ships

Author: R. A. Fletcher

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-04-26

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1473383455

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Originally published in 1930, this is a wonderfully detailed look at the history of the Sailing Ship in the nineteenth century. Packed with photos and anecdotes, every major ship and Captain of the day is examined in depth. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include : Types of Ships The East Indiamen American Superiority and Atlantic Packets Navigation Laws, Utility Ships Opium and Tea Clippers Rushes To Californian and Australian Gold Fields, Some Fast Passages Wool, Wheat and Emigrant Ships Roaring Forties, Icebergs, Slow and Fast Passages, Etc Disasters, Rescues, Etc Life On A Sailing Ship


The Rotarian

The Rotarian

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1942-10

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.


Music in Films on the Middle Ages

Music in Films on the Middle Ages

Author: John Haines

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1135927693

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This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema’s main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture. The book treats six pervasive moments that define the genre of medieval film: the church-tower bell, the trumpet fanfare or horn call, the music of banquets and courts, the singing minstrel, performances of Gregorian chant, and the music that accompanies horse-riding knights, with each chapter visiting representative films as case studies. These six signal musical moments, that create a fundamental visual-aural core central to making a film feel medieval to modern audiences, originate in medievalist works predating cinema by some three centuries.


The Normans

The Normans

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3734010993

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Reproduction of the original: The Normans by Sarah Orne Jewett


The New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion: Containing ... Complete Sailing Directions for Ships, Both Outward and Homeward Bound ... To which are Subjoined, Copious Tables of Latitudes and Longitudes ... Also New Tables of the Sun's Declination from 1809 to 1824. Improved from the Original Work of ... J. Chandler [by] ... M. Downie ... G. Eunson ... M. McKenzie ... J. Diston ... The Eighteenth Edition of the Work, and the Fourth of the New Arrangement

The New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion: Containing ... Complete Sailing Directions for Ships, Both Outward and Homeward Bound ... To which are Subjoined, Copious Tables of Latitudes and Longitudes ... Also New Tables of the Sun's Declination from 1809 to 1824. Improved from the Original Work of ... J. Chandler [by] ... M. Downie ... G. Eunson ... M. McKenzie ... J. Diston ... The Eighteenth Edition of the Work, and the Fourth of the New Arrangement

Author: John CHANDLER (of Orford, Pilot.)

Publisher:

Published: 1815

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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