A Sailor's Tales
A Sailor's Tales

Author: Bill Robinson

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1978-02

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780393335729

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Along the way are hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons and earthquakes in the Pacific and the Orient, wild times on Navy ships and on Navy liberty ashore, as well as rescues at sea--including the famous sinking of the Mary E in the 1976 Miami-Nassau race. There are also evocative stories of idyllic cruises and places, like Nantucket, Scandinavia, Greece, and the coasts of the United States. Robinson's stories are peopled with a warm, amusing, and frequently dramatic cast of characters, including yachts themselves--ranging from sailing skiffs to large ocean-racing machines, and most things in between--old and new, large and small, in storm and calm. His has been a rich sailing life and his stories tell of it with fascination and inescapable entertainment.

A Sailor's Tale
A Sailor's Tale

Author: E.G. ‘Lusko

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-05-03

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1796031402

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In 1888, a US Navy sailor begins writing letters to his niece. The letters tell her where he is and what ventures he has gotten himself into. His sailor letters are retrospective, written after things happen. He also must tell her how he got to the place in time he started writing. He is educated for the time, trained as a naval navigator, lighthouse repairman, and watch repairman. His language is as he would speak to his fellow crew—clipped, as sailors use few G sounds, and an apostrophe is used to indicate the word is shortened, as they do. He is honest and kind. He is well trained in sword fighting. His enlistment contract is not the standard form. His mother’s attorney wrote it. The fleet admiral approved it as he had served with the sailor’s uncle. His uncle was a noted ship navigator, shipmaster, an author of navy lore, and now provided ocean metrological data to the naval observatory. He has carried this on. His early experiences involve train travel to San Francisco. The ship charts the then Northwest Territory and the Alaskan coast. His group verifies charts of the Missouri River. Mostly, his ship supplies food provisions to navy frigates in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea
The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea

Author: L. C. Tang

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781632214270

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"I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea." Alain Gerbault The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea invites you to look behind cruise ship doors and join in one woman's adventures during her life at sea. Lincee Tang decides to celebrate her milestone thirtieth birthday with a vacation cruise which ignites her desire to sail away to many ports of call proudly wearing the uniform in the Entertainment Department. Lincee's story of making memories at sea unveils the hidden truths and untold stories of the sailing crew who work hard to make passengers' ocean journeys enjoyable. Taking hold of her courage to lose sight of the shore, Lincee discovers hidden talents within, forges ahead with resilience in tough situations, and has her chance at romance and love. Discover how removing inhibitions and fear of the unknown can lead to a whole world of possibilities and adventures. Finding growth in unexpected social, emotional and spiritual avenues leads one to explore how it is possible to reach new horizons. "The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." Jacques Cousteau "They that go down to the ship, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep." Psalm 107: 23-24 "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus

Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1101911093

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AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.

The Shipwrecked Sailor: A Tale from Egypt
The Shipwrecked Sailor: A Tale from Egypt

Author: Suzanne I. Barchers

Publisher: Red Chair Press

Published: 2022-08-21

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1684526620

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Sadiki fears the worst when he is tossed from his ship in a storm. But a chance encounter with a serpent changes his life and that of the Pharoah.

A Sailor's Story
A Sailor's Story

Author: Sam Glanzman

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0486798127

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"An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.

The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC
The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC

Author:

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780192839664

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"This anthology contains all the substantial surviving works from the golden age of Ancient Egyptian fictional literature (c.1940-1640 B.C.). Composed by an anonymous author in the form of a funerary autobiography, the Tale tells how the courtier Sinuhe flees Egypt at the death of his king. His adventures bring wealth and happiness, but his failure to find meaningful life abroad is only redeemed by the new king's sympathy, and he finally returns to the security of his homeland. Other works from the Middle Kingdom include a poetic dialogue between a man and his soul on the problem of suffering and death, a teaching about the nature of wisdom which is bitterly spoken by the ghost of the assassinated King Amenemhat I, and a series of light-hearted tales of wonder from the court of the builder of the Great Pyramid."--Jacket.

Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship

Author: Chris Priestley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1599906996

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A follow up to Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, this is another creepy middle grade story collection with a chilling frame. This time, the stories are all tales of the sea: pirates and plagues and storms a plenty...

Middle Egyptian Literature
Middle Egyptian Literature

Author: James P. Allen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1107087430

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This volume provides original texts as well as translations of the major works of Middle Kingdom literature.