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Author: Robert Cornuke
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780971410039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's story of his search for the archaeological remains of the anchors of the shipwreck of Saint Paul. In the process he attempts to establish the historicity of the Biblical Book of Acts.
Author: Paul Gelder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1408112086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTotal Loss has been on the Adlard Coles list for 23 years, and in March this year we published a new edition in B format with a 'thriller' look. In two months it has sold 886 copies. There was a lot of unused material left over from it, plus some new total loss stories of yachts sunk, which have happened since the book went to press. I'd like to get the author working on a follow-up volume asap (he's a journalist and takes ages to deliver - deadlines etc). We'd repeat the formula: thriller look, low-priced impulse buy.
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1982111402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Author: Paul F. Johnston
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015-09-14
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1623492831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2016 Secretary's Research Award, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution - awarded for author's contributions to research The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Cleopatra’s Barge, endured many incarnations over her eight-year life, from Mediterranean pleasure cruiser to a Hawaiian king’s personal yacht. The famed ship, at times also a Christian missionary transport, pirate ship, getaway vehicle, instrument of diplomacy, and racing yacht, wrecked on a reef in Hanalei Bay on April 6, 1824. Obtaining the first underwater archaeological permits ever issued by the state of Hawai‘i, a team of divers from the Smithsonian Institution located, surveyed, and excavated the wrecked ship from 1995 to 2000. The 1,250 lots of artifacts from the shipwreck represent the only known material culture from the reign of King Kamehameha II (Liholiho), shedding light on the little-documented transitional period from Old Hawai‘i to foreign influence and culture. Although Liholiho ruled Hawai‘i for only a few short years, his abolition of taboos and admission of the Boston Christian missionaries into his kingdom planted the seeds for profound changes in Hawaiian culture. Richly illustrated, Shipwrecked in Paradise tells the story of the ship’s life in Hawai‘i, from her 1820 sale to Liholiho to her discovery and excavation.
Author: Paul Carroll
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2010-06-21
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1770705449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from destruction , but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a period of 87 years, she eluded many efforts to locate her remains, but was finally discovered in 2000 by a sailor using a fish-finding device. Since then, she has been visited by thousands, but sadly plundered. Our story traces her history from her British origins in 1883, through the transition to become a "Laker," the eventful storm, the search, and her ultimate discovery in southern Lake Huron, and the controversy over how she should be protected.
Author: Peter Krol
Publisher:
Published: 2022-05-26
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781949253337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnowable Word offers a foundation on why and how to study the Bible. Through a running study Genesis 1, this new edition illustrates how to Observe, Interpret, and Apply the Scripture-and gives the vision behind each step.
Author: Paul Hancock
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781882376841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining almost a fifth of the world's fresh water, the Great Lakes system of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario in North America are vast inland expanses, and subject to the same hazards for shipping more commonly found on the high seas. Since the seventeenth century, when the first wooden vessels of colonists and adventurers set a course across them, the lakes have claimed many ships as well as the lives of those unfortunates aboard them. Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes narrates the tales of over a hundred of them. From the dramatic stories of the many ships that have foundered with all hands in the great storms that can sweep across the lakes, to the tales of vessels like the Gunilda, lost because her wealthy master refused to pay a few dollars for a pilot, this book is packed with the fascinating narratives of Great Lakes disasters. Including photographs of the boats it is also a document of change and progress, showing how the ships have been developed over the centuries as well as the industrial cities and towns that have grown from the wealth brought by the shipping lanes of the lakes. From the griffon, which went down without a trace in 1679, to the more recent disaster of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which was ripped apart and sank with all twenty-nine lives onboard lost, Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes includes tales of courage and tragedy, stupidity and heroism. Inside find: The tales of over a hundred of the most famous shipwrecks on North America's Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald, Daniel J. Morrell, Eastland, and many more. Fully illustrated with archival photography. Chronological listing of wrecks. Dramatic stories of the ships' last moments - the tragedies, courage, and the miraculous rescues.
Author: Bible Pathway Adventures
Publisher: Bible Pathway Adventures
Published: 2020-05-18
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 1777160197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe religious leaders in Jerusalem trembled with fury. The apostle Paul used to be one of them. But since his trip to Damascus, Paul now taught that Yeshua was the Messiah. “Paul is teaching lies,” said the priests. “We must stop him!” Thrown into prison, Paul knows he has done nothing wrong. He sails to Rome to stand before Caesar, the mighty Roman Emperor. But the seas are rough and dangerous. Will Paul reach Rome alive? Filled with colorful illustrations and biblical truth, Shipwrecked! is part of the Bible Pathway Adventures series of biblical adventures. If your children like gripping action and courageous Israelites, then they'll love this biblical adventure series from Bible Pathway Adventures. The search for truth is more fun than tradition!
Author: James Morrison
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0472119206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film
Author: Karen Samantha Barton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1498585426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left 64 survivors, only one of them female. The Joola caused more human suffering than the Titanic yet no scholarly research to date has explored the political and environmental conditions in which this African crisis occurred. Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster investigates the roots of the Joola shipwreck and its consequences for Senegalese people, particularly those living in the rural south. Using three summers of field research in Senegal, Karen Samantha Barton unravels the geographical forces such as migration, colonial cartographies, and geographies of the sea that led to this humanitarian disaster and defined its aftermath. Barton shows how the Sufi tenet of “beautiful optimism” shaped community resilience in the wake of the shipwreck, despite the repercussions the event had on Senegalese society and space.
