The Soul Of A Sailor
The Soul Of A Sailor

Author: Allen Heckman

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-03-20

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 147978480X

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Allen L. Heckman served in the United States Navy from 1969 to 1973. From 1970 to 1973 he was assigned to the USS Fortify MSO 446 as a Sonar Technician Third Class. Today he is a retired Air Force Chaplain with 22 years of military service including the four Navy years. He is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ with 35 years of ministry background. His pastoral leadership includes being Senior Pastor of three local churches in Pennsylvania. As an Air Force Chaplain he has served in six states and four countries. He has been engaged in the Vietnam Conflict and Desert Storm. Heckman has been married to the former Mary Jane Hicks for thirty-eight years. They have one daughter and one grandson.

Soul of the Hurricane
Soul of the Hurricane

Author: Nelson Simon

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1641604107

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"Soul of the Hurricane is a remarkable debut from a singular storyteller." —David Isay, Peabody Award–winning creator of StoryCorps Nelson Simon didn't want to sign up as a last-minute crew member to transport a Norwegian schooner from Brooklyn to Bermuda. But one thing led to another, and there he was. He told himself that it would be a sort of pleasure cruise: a week in the Gulf Stream with a gourmet chef on board, some down time on a tropical island, then a quick flight home. What did it matter that he had practically no sailing experience? The eight other crew members had plenty—they just needed an extra pair of hands. What could possibly go wrong? It was October 1991, and the ship was Anne Kristine, the oldest continuously sailing vessel in the world. What awaited them was Hurricane Grace, the southern end of what came to be known as the "Perfect Storm." Soul of the Hurricane tells an unlikely tale that begins with an unexpected invitation and ends in the dead of night somewhere far from home, with a Coast Guard helicopter above and a dark, angry sea below.

Sailor Song
Sailor Song

Author: Ken Kesey

Publisher:

Published: 1993-01

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9780552995672

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This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizens--colorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and DEAPs (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples)--are seduced and besieged by a Hollywood crew, come to film the classic children's book The Sea Lion. The ensuing turf war escalates into a struggle for the soul of the town as the novel spins and swirls toward a harrowing climax. Writing with a spectacular range of language and style, Kesey has given us a unique and powerful novel about America.

Sailor Song
Sailor Song

Author: Gerry Smyth

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780712353700

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Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

Author: Philip Hoare

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0008133697

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Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’ Robert Macfarlane From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.

To Swear like a Sailor
To Swear like a Sailor

Author: Paul A. Gilje

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0521762359

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This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Psychology
Psychology

Author: Stephen Everson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-05-16

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521358613

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Examination of the theories of the ancient philosophers, from the materialism of the Presocratics and Hellenists to the dualism of Plato and Plotinus, reveals that psychology had become an established discipline long before Descartes.