Download or read book In Slocum s Wake written by Nat Warren-White and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN SLOCUMS'S WAKE, written for sailors and non-sailors alike, is an autobiographical tale of a hard-won circumnavigation aboard a 43-foot cutter. This story will entice, entrance and inspire the reader whether you intend to embark on your own voyage or just enjoy a good adventure saga. With a primary focus on the remarkable people and places encountered during nearly five years at sea, IN SLOCUM'S WAKE also offers those who are planning their own long-distance off-shore exploit invaluable advice and data about best routes, strategies, stops, services and tricks of the trade. If you have always dreamed of undertaking such a journey, IN SLOCUM'S WAKE will either help you summon the courage to actually take the leap or convince you it's really not worth the risk or trouble you will surely encounter along the watery way. It's impossible to sail around the world without facing some of the most challenging experiences of your life. On the flip side, you will also surely discover the most sublime and exhilarating moments and memories guaranteed to stay with you for the rest of your earthbound days. Nat Warren-White's five-year journey follows many of the same passages and roughly traces much of the route followed by Joshua Slocum who, in the late 1800s, became the first person to sail alone around the world. IN SLOCUM'S WAKE compares the challenges Warren-White faced aboard his South African-built sloop, BAHATI, with those faced by Slocum aboard his 37-foot Chesapeake Bay oyster-fishing vessel, SPRAY . The two boats are similar in design and capability though built more than 100 years apart, one in wood, the other in fiberglass. The two captains are similar in background and stature, though born almost 100 years apart. To both men, navigating the world's oceans came from a similar motivation: "...a natural outcome of [a] love of adventure, [and] of [our] lifelong experience" in, on and around the sea.
Download or read book A Short History of the Slocums Slocumbs and Slocombs of America written by Charles Elihu Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slocum 327 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’ll put a fire in your gut… In a dirt-squat mining town near Mexico, Slocum walks in on a bloody mess after a shopkeeper is tortured and murdered by border-hopping mescal movers out for a quick plunder. With time short, Slocum takes the job of finding the banditos and doing what he does best. Along with a makeshift posse of rogue Indian scouts and miscreant cowboys, Slocum’s venturing into a lawless wasteland where survival depends on his guns and guts alone. And if he can’t bring the bad men back alive, then he’ll be drinking to them—over their own graves…
Download or read book Slocum 378 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum takes a hard ride with the prettiest teamster he's ever seen... John Slocum has known plenty of wild women. But tough-as-nails teamster Willa Malloy is a different breed of beauty. And she's out for blood after a pack of renegade Apaches killed her driving partner. Lucky for her, Slocum has his own job to do—find the insane renegade leader and put him down like the mad dog he is. But protecting Willa at the same time might prove to be too much—even for Slocum.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Rights written by Joshua Slocum and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .
Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Download or read book Astronauts of Cape Horn written by Nicholas Gray and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the first two men landed on the moon. There were five other landings, leading to a total of twelve astronauts standing on the moon. A further six circled above while the world watched. Also in 1969, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world south of Cape Horn. He was the eighth of only eleven men who rounded the Horn alone before the final moon landing. Those eleven men had no-one watching them.This dramatic and exciting book, written so vividly you can feel the sea's spray on your face and taste the salt on your lips, tells the story of the lives of those eleven men and their sailing exploits, and compares and contrasts their voyages with what the twelve space astronauts achieved.'One famous astronaut spoke of "e;a small step for man, one great leap for mankind"e;. For those who go to sea, rather than into space, there's no greater step than rounding the Horn.'From the preface, written by Paul Heiney
Download or read book Sailing Around the World written by Guy Bernardin and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French writer and sailor Guy Bernardin has completed in the OSTAR and the BOC Challenge races.
Download or read book Wake County 9 Am written by Richard Theodor Kusiolek and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Civil War affect the current cultural attitudes of those born in North Carolina? Did the US Civil War’s historical impact of defeat lead to Southern Families never forgetting their invalidation and blaming all “Northerners” for the economic hardships of the Federal Government? One hundred and fifty-eight years have passed, but generational links continued to weave the perception that poverty and despair are still factors created by the Northern Federal Government. If in 2023, Northern homeowners move into HOA Southern born neighborhoods, they may experience dangerous hostilities.
Download or read book Slocum 429 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lady in need is trouble indeed… While hunting elk in the Colorado Rockies, John Slocum hears a terrible explosion followed by a frightening rumble. As he rides along the canyon, he comes upon the settlement of Wolf Creek, where an avalanche has buried all the town’s men. Their widows, meanwhile, look to Slocum for comfort. But the gunslinger has his sights set on one woman in particular. While Lilith isn’t a widow, she did lose someone in the accident—a brother with connections to the claim-jumping Batson gang. Now, Slocum has to keep one eye on his gun and one on the woman sharing his bed…
Download or read book The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World written by Joshua Slocum and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.
Download or read book The Drowning Pool written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred—and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
Download or read book Slocum 372 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum doesn't let anything go without a good fight... John Slocum has captured Bronc Dugan, leader of a notorious gang of outlaws wanted for escaping a prison wagon and killing a marshal. But when Dugan slips through the law’s fingers, he steals one of Slocum’s most prized possessions. Now it’s personal… Dugan is wanted dead or alive. Rest assured when Slocum gets his hand on this repeat offender yet again, Dugan won’t be facing jail time. He’ll be meeting his maker…
Download or read book Yankee in Atlanta written by Jocelyn Green and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When soldier Caitlin McKae woke up in Atlanta after being wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor who treated her believed Caitlin's only secret was that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta. Trained as a teacher, she accepts a job as a governess to the daughter of Noah Becker, a German immigrant lawyer, who is about to enlist with the Rebel army. Then in the spring of 1864, Sherman’s troops edge closer to Atlanta. Caitlin tries to escape north with the girl, but is arrested on charges of being a spy. Will honor dictate that Caitlin follow the rules, or love demand that she break them? For more information on this series, visit www.HeroinesBehindtheLines.com.
Download or read book Scribner s Monthly an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nature of Legal Interpretation written by Brian G. Slocum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless—we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the judges on whom we depend for the interpretation of our most fundamental legal texts. Should a judge feel confident in defining common words in the texts without the aid of a linguist? How is the meaning communicated by the text determined? Should the communicative meaning of texts be decisive, or at least influential? To fully engage and probe these questions of interpretation, this volume draws upon a variety of experts from several fields, who collectively examine the interpretation of legal texts. In The Nature of Legal Interpretation, the contributors argue that the meaning of language is crucial to the interpretation of legal texts, such as statutes, constitutions, and contracts. Accordingly, expert analysis of language from linguists, philosophers, and legal scholars should influence how courts interpret legal texts. Offering insightful new interdisciplinary perspectives on originalism and legal interpretation, these essays put forth a significant and provocative discussion of how best to characterize the nature of language in legal texts.
