Download or read book Mr Lincoln s Brown Water Navy written by Gary D. Joiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Union inland navy that became the Mississippi Squadron is one of the greatest, yet least studied aspects of the Civil War. Without it, however, the war in the West may not have been won, and the war in the East might have lasted much longer and perhaps ended differently. The men who formed and commanded this large fighting force have, with few exceptions, not been as thoroughly studied as their army counterparts. The vessels they created were highly specialized craft which operated in the narrow confines of the Western rivers in places that could not otherwise receive fire support. Ironclads and gunboats protected army forces and convoyed much needed supplies to far-flung Federal forces. They patrolled thousands of miles of rivers and fought battles that were every bit as harrowing as land engagements yet inside iron monsters that created stifling heat with little ventilation. This book is about the intrepid men who fought under these conditions and the highly improvised boats in which they fought. The tactics their commanders developed were the basis for many later naval operations. Of equal importance were lessons learned about what not to do. The flag officers and admirals of the Mississippi Squadron wrote the rules for modern riverine warfare.
Download or read book In the Red and Brown Water written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: How far will fast, beautiful Oya go to make a mark in the world? IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER is the intoxicating story that charts a young girl's thrust into womanhood and her subsequent fall into the murky waters of life.
Download or read book Water Ethics written by Peter G. Brown and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate the growing global water crisis. Water Ethics is based on the belief that responding to contemporary water problems requires attending to questions of value and culture. How should we capture, store, and distribute water? At what cost? For whom? How do we reconcile water's dual roles as a practical resource and spiritual symbol? According to the editors of this collection of foundational essays, questions surrounding water are inherently ethical. Peter Brown and Jeremy Schmidt contend that all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve value judgments and cultural assumptions. Each of the six sections of the book discuses a different approach to thinking about the relationship between water and humanity, from utilitarianism to eco-feminism to religious beliefs, including Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Contributors range from Bartholemew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church to Nobel Laureate economist Elinor Ostrom and water policy expert Sandra Postel. Each section is framed by an original introductory essay written by the editors. Water Ethics will help readers understand how various moral perspectives, even when unstated, have guided and will continue to guide water policy around the globe.
Download or read book This Is Water written by David Foster Wallace and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Download or read book Swamp Water written by Vereen Bell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamp Water, the first novel by a young native of south Georgia, was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee in southern Georgia--"the Swamp that pulled a man down and never let him go." Movie versions were made in 1941 (by Jean Renoir) and in 1951.
Download or read book Riverine written by Don Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrolling the Mekong Delta's Bassac River in heavily armed fiberglass boats, the U.S. Navy's brown-water sailors took the war to the enemy in some of the most extraordinary operations of the Vietnam War. Here is the first important memoir to come out of the brown-water navy, by a former Lieutenant Commander.
Download or read book Riverine written by Jim Mesko and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver den del af Vietnamkrigen, der omfattede US Navy's kamp bl.a. med kanonbåde langs kysterne og ind i floderne for at afskære fremryknings- og forsyningsveje.
Download or read book Brownwater written by Samuel C. Crawford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-10-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teenage boys are heading to Vietnam in this sometimes-humorous account of their ordeal traveling throughout South Vietnam in their challenge to locate their unit. Charles, fresh out of boot camp and having no idea what to do or how to get around, teamed up with Petty Officer Dan who was returning for his third tour and having all the right answers and shortcuts required to survive in 1969 Vietnam. For Vietnam veterans, this story will bring back precious memories that will make them say, "Yeah, I remember doing stuff like that. That part of the war was fun." For those who never served in the military will find this an enjoyable eye-opener to military life from the eyes of an 18-year-old city boy from Baltimore.
Download or read book Brown Water Navy written by Ronald L. McAbee and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BROWN WATER NAVY is the thrilling day-to-day life of a young seaman fighting for survival on the war torn, deadly canals and rivers of Vietnam as a "River Rat" with the U.S. Navy's Mobile Riverine Force. Seaman Ron McAbee, a Monitor 20mm gunner with the 92nd River Assault Division, tells his story in a down to earth memoir of what it was like to be on a moving target going eye-to-eye with VC Forces doing their level best to destroy his Monitor as VC Forces attempted to deny the Delta and IV Corps to US and South Vietnam Forces. BROWN WATER NAVY may very well become one of the epic stories of U.S. Naval Operations during the Vietnam War. 208 pages, 49 photos and illustrations.
Download or read book Brownwater Ii written by Samuel C. Crawford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comical adventure begins for Charles Edwards after reporting to Vietnam as a member of the Brown Water Navy stationed in the Mekong Delta assigned to the Mobile Riverine Task Force 117. With a little help from his friend, Petty Officer Dan, Charles quickly matures from his humble beginnings as an 18-year-old city boy from Baltimore. For Vietnam veterans, this story will bring back precious memories that will make them say, Yeah, I remember doing stuff like that. That part of the war was fun. For those who never served in the military will find this an enjoyable eye-opener to military life.
Download or read book Brownwater Iii written by Samuel C. Crawford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story continues for Seaman Charles Edwards following the cliffhanger in BrownWater II. Only now, his humorous and comical travel adventures find him struggling in his major undertaking to get home, back to the states, and to do this without his mentor and traveling cohort, Petty Officer Dan. Even with combat maturity, Charles is still just a very young nineteen-year-old city boy from Baltimore Maryland. For Vietnam veterans, this story will bring back precious memories that will make they say, "Yeah, I remember doing stuff like that. That part of the war was fun." For those who never served in the military will find this an enjoyable eye-opener to military life.
Download or read book U S Small Combatants Including PT boats Subchasers and the Brown water Navy written by Norman Friedman and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the destroyer from 1906 to the present and examines the design and construction of the various models of American destroyers.
Download or read book Man of the River written by Jimmy R. Bryant and published by Sergeant Kirkland's Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "June 21, 1968... The boat, PBR 750, of River Section 535, was patrolling in the Cai Be area of South Vietnam when it came under enemy attack. Patrol officer Lt. William Dennis, Boat Captain RM1 Scott Delph, and GMG2 Patrick Ford were killed in this action. GMG2 Patrick Ford was captured after he got the other two wounded crew members off before beaching the boat. His body was recovered later that day by a sweep of Popular Forces and he was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroic actions".
Download or read book The Compost Powered Water Heater How to Heat Your Greenhouse Pool Or Buildings with Only Compost written by Gaelan Brown and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems almost too good to be true: make high-value organic compost while generating reliable combustion-free heat. But it works, and this book is your practical introduction. With detailed plans for constructing small DIY systems, step-by-step illustrations and photos to guide you through the process, and calculations to help you estimate the heating capabilities of various approaches, this book will be invaluable.
Download or read book Burdens by Water written by Alan Rifkin and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of strangely resilient personal adventures—often beginning with breakups, and fueled by a sense of "invincible longing"—essayist Alan Rifkin flings himself at the last vestiges of the Southern California Dream. He chases summer with a pool man, lives with monks in a Santa Barbara monastery, joins a dysfunctional Los Angeles writing club, communes with wild dolphins, traces the steps of Otzi the Iceman, emulates a Bible-based marriage, and confronts his mother's last season in his beloved San Fernando Valley, in each case wrestling with mysteries of heaven and earth. By the time he looks up, he has waded deep into the complications of later life—compromised love, family tragedy, and what it might mean to be a grownup in the 21st century West.
Download or read book Brown Water written by Butch Bouvier and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Bouvier, known to many as "Mr. Keelboat" is considered by most to be one of the leading authorities in the world on the boats of our inland waterways prior to 1860, and specifically on the boats of the Lewis and Clark expedition.He has researched, designed, built and operated on the river, more authentic pre-steam era water craft than anyone in the world. Over the last 30 years he has performed experimental archeology and uncovered many of the lost secrets of that age on our inland waters. His findings are in "Brown Water" along with many wonderful stories about his exciting life chasing those intrepid boatmen who opened up our rivers for transportation and commerce, prior to the age of steam.
Download or read book Spirits Sugar Water Bitters written by Derek Brown and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the cocktail --"the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," according to H.L. Mencken --featuring 45 recipes for rediscovered classics and inspired originals. A cocktail-- the fascinating alchemy of simple alcohols into complex potables-- is an invention as unlikely as it is delicious, and an American innovation whose history marches in step with that of the Republic. In Spirits Sugar Water Bitters, nationally recognized bartender and spirits expert Derek Brown tells the story of the cocktail's birth, rise, fall, and eventual resurrection, tracing the contours of the American story itself. In this spirited timeline, Brown shows how events such as the Whiskey Rebellion, Prohibition, and the entry of Hawaii into the United States shaped the nation's drinking habits. Brown also tells the stories of the great men and women who made their mark on cocktail culture, including America's Distiller-In-Chief George Washington and modern-day King Cocktail Dale DeGroff, as well as lesser-known mixology heroes like Martha Niblo, the nineteenth-century New York proprietress famous for her Sherry Cobblers, and Frederic Tudor, whose ice-shipping business gave early drinks like the Cobbler and the Mint Julep the chill they needed. Featuring classic and original recipes inspired by each period, this book serves up the perfect mix of geography, history, culture, and taste.
