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Book Great Shipwrecks Off the Coast of Southern Africa

Download or read book Great Shipwrecks Off the Coast of Southern Africa written by Jose Burman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of shipwrecks from 1554 to 1966.

Book Shipwrecks on and Off the Coasts of Southern Africa

Download or read book Shipwrecks on and Off the Coasts of Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipwrecks on and Off the Coast of Southern Africa

Download or read book Shipwrecks on and Off the Coast of Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipwrecks  South Africa   Return  from Lloyd s books  of shipwrecks on the coast of Southern Africa  between Orange River and Delagoa Bay  from the 1st January 1838 to the 20th May 1852

Download or read book Shipwrecks South Africa Return from Lloyd s books of shipwrecks on the coast of Southern Africa between Orange River and Delagoa Bay from the 1st January 1838 to the 20th May 1852 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipwrecks   Salvage in South Africa  1505 to the Present

Download or read book Shipwrecks Salvage in South Africa 1505 to the Present written by Malcolm Turner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa

Download or read book Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa written by Malcolm Turner and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together widely-scattered information concerning the nearly 1000 shipwrecks that have occurred on the coast of South Africa, from the earliest recorded Portuguese wreck, that of a vessel whose name is lost to us, in 1505, to that of the Daeyang family in 1986. Illustrated with sketches, maps, drawings, and contemporary and historical photographs, the book covers various aspects of shipwrecks and salvage in South Africa which a main text and three appendixes, which list in alphabetical, chronological and geographical order all the shipwrecks that have occurred on the South African coast.

Book Shipwrecks  South Africa   Return  from Lloyd s Books  of Shipwrecks on the Coast of Southern Africa  Between Orange River and Delagoa Bay  from the 1st January 1838 to the 20th May 1852

Download or read book Shipwrecks South Africa Return from Lloyd s Books of Shipwrecks on the Coast of Southern Africa Between Orange River and Delagoa Bay from the 1st January 1838 to the 20th May 1852 written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Shipwrecks Off the Southern African Coast

Download or read book List of Shipwrecks Off the Southern African Coast written by Emsie Naude and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipwreck and Survival on the South east Coast of Africa

Download or read book Shipwreck and Survival on the South east Coast of Africa written by A. R. Willcox and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beachcombing in South Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rudy van der Elst
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
  • Release : 2019-02-01
  • ISBN : 1775845729
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Beachcombing in South Africa written by Rudy van der Elst and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who spends time beside the sea knows there’s a wealth of ‘treasure’ to be found, be it natural or manufactured, living or washed up. Beachcombing in South Africa is a friendly guide to the seashore’s rich pickings. Short chapters such as Floaters and drifters, Sea-beans, Sponges, Eggs and egg cases, and many more, detail what can be found and how to interpret or identify specimens. Items may reveal links to activities or biological events in the nearby ocean – or, perhaps, thousands of miles away. They may relate to human activities, such as fish or bird tagging, or be oceanographic instruments separated from their moorings. Or they may be part of the growing menace of flotsam and jetsam from the planet’s burgeoning human population. This book will enhance the experience of beachcombing, satisfy curiosity about finds, and contribute to a better understanding of the life in our oceans and along our shores. Aimed at a wide audience of beach strollers, dog walkers, anglers, bird watchers and families who share a fascination with the seashore and its treasures. Sales points: Lively, friendly guide to recreational beach trawling; covers many different kinds of ‘treasure’, be they natural or manufactured, living or washed up; brightly illustrated with multiple photos; will appeal to committed enthusiasts and casual beach strollers alike.

Book The Haarlem Shipwreck  1647

Download or read book The Haarlem Shipwreck 1647 written by Bruno E. J. S. Werz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haarlem Shipwreck (1647) explores the story around one of the earliest recorded maritime accidents in Table Bay. In this gripping investigation, based on detailed archival research, Bruno Werz chronicles the demise of the ship and the sojourn of 62 of its survivors on the shores of the bay. These events, seemingly inauspicious, led to the establishment five years later of the Dutch East India Company refreshment station along the trade route, and from these pragmatic arrangements grew the settlement of Cape Town. This superbly researched book promises to be a source publication with a difference. Readers will be able to view transcriptions in 17th-century Dutch of original VOC manuscripts (with translations) such as with the survivors muster roll, and letters dispatched with a visiting English ship, the Sun. The prize document of the collection is the hitherto unpublished journal kept by junior merchant Leendert Jansz while stranded on the shores of Table Bay, freshly capturing impressions of the people and surroundings untrammelled by the long telescope of our subsequent experience of history. Dr Bruno Werz, FSA, is a leading authority on maritime archaeology and history. His projects include underwater excavations of the VOC ships Oosterland and Waddinxveen (1697) in Table Bay, an extensive survey of sunken ships around Robben Island, and the excavation of sub-Saharan Africa's earliest shipwreck near Oranjemund, Namibia. [Subject: Maritime History, Dutch East India Company, African Studies]

Book The 50 Greatest Shipwrecks

Download or read book The 50 Greatest Shipwrecks written by Richard Jones and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of a shipwreck, what image springs to mind? A tall sailing ship on the rocks, or perhaps the sinking Titanic surrounded by lifeboats? Historian Richard M. Jones has put together 50 stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous and in some cases tragic ships in the whole of history. When did two liners collide and lead to one of the greatest rescues in history? How did a Scotsman become an American hero against his own country? Which warship sank with gold bullion on board during the Second World War? This book tells the story of these fascinating cases plus many more, explores the largest shipwrecks, the treasure wrecks and the ones that are talked about still as the most famous. Starting at the tiny island of Alderney in 1592, we take a journey through history, through the First and Second World Wars, into the age of the passenger ferry and finally to the modern day migrant issues in the Mediterranean Sea. Never before have these fifty wrecks come together in a book that really brings home to the reader just how many lost vessels there are, how deadly many can be and what this teaches us today about our own history.

Book The Coast of Southern Africa

Download or read book The Coast of Southern Africa written by John Kench and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey from the desert shores of the Namib to the waters of the Maputaland coral reefs, depicting the villages, towns, great harbours, and the area's vast range of animal inhabitants.

Book Seascapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerry H. Bentley
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 082483027X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Seascapes written by Jerry H. Bentley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions and penetrate the historical processes at work there. This book aims to contribute to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology written by Alexis Catsambis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a comprehensive survey of maritime archaeology as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.

Book Skeletons on the Zahara

Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.