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Book To Swear like a Sailor

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  • Author : Paul A. Gilje
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 0521762359
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Book The Sailor s Word book

Download or read book The Sailor s Word book written by William Henry Smyth and published by London : Blackie and son. This book was released on 1867 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailor Cambridge

Download or read book Sailor Cambridge written by Susanne Labrum Quinney and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-11-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll find within the pages of Sailor Cambridge all the adventure, excitement, joy and fun that is always desired by the reader that is continually seeking to leave reality for just awhile. Yet you will find, not only adventure, but within those adventures an identity of self, hope, love for life, and many desires to live your life with more zeal, ambition, self like, self love, and a renewed understanding and love for all those around you. Within these pages are great treasures that are able to bring success and fortune to all that read and learn from all that is held there! These writings will be handed down to generation after generation. This book, and the ones to follow, is in settings of fiction, entailing non-fiction facts. Readers, from the age of 12 years to mature adults, will enjoy and receive hopes and enlightenment that will lay out a definite map for their journeys through life. All ages and genders will find many treasures within the pages of this book. You will find joy, peace-of­-mind, truths, and yourself. Once these facts and theories are understood, and put to use within the confines of one's life, there will be no more desires of suicide or death, and less struggles with the, all encompassing, dark side of this world. After numerous life altering experiences with this side and the other side of life, it was brought to my attention that not only have I benefited from those experiences, but others, too, will benefit. This is a book that you will desire to read, and re-read, over and over again and again. Each time, each adventure is read, you will find more and more treasures pertaining to the sustaining of life. Read and enjoy!

Book Sailor Talk

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  • Author : Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
  • Publisher : Studies in Port and Maritime H
  • Release : 2021-03
  • ISBN : 1800859651
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Sailor Talk written by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and published by Studies in Port and Maritime H. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea. From this argument many other compelling threads emerge, including questions relating to the seafarer's multifaceted identity, maritime labor, questions of performativity, the ship as 'theater, ' the varied and multiple registers of 'sailor talk, ' and the foundational role of maritime language in the lives and works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London. The book also includes nods to James Fenimore Cooper, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Meticulous scholarly research underpins the close readings of literary texts and the scrupulously detailed biographical accounts of three major sailor-writers. The author's own lived experience as a seafarer adds a refreshingly materialist dimension to the subtle literary readings. The book represents a valuable addition to a growing scholarly and political interest in the sea and sea literature. By taking the sailor's viewpoint and listening to sailors' voices, the book also marks a clear intervention in this developing field.

Book Jane Austen s Sailor Brothers

Download or read book Jane Austen s Sailor Brothers written by John H. Hubback and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1906 biography of Francis and Charles Austen by the former's descendants, offering much inside knowledge on the Austen family.

Book Sailor s Hope

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  • Author : Rusty Bittermann
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2010-11-19
  • ISBN : 0773581170
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Sailor s Hope written by Rusty Bittermann and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.

Book A World at Sea

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  • Author : Lauren Benton
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-10-09
  • ISBN : 0812297342
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book A World at Sea written by Lauren Benton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship between maritime and terrestrial processes at the center of the field and to analyze the links between global maritime practices and major transformations in world history. A World at Sea consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of practices and processes across the land-sea divide and the way they influenced global change. The first section highlights the regulatory order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based polities and their agents and by conflicts at sea. The second section studies documentary practices that aggregated and conveyed information about sea voyages and encounters, and it traces the wide-ranging impact of the explosion of new information about the maritime world. Probing the political symbolism of the land-sea divide as a threshold of power, the last section features essays that examine the relationship between littoral geographies and sociolegal practices spanning land and sea. Maritime history, the contributors show, matters because the oceans were key sites of experimentation, innovation, and disruption that reflected and sparked wide-ranging global change. Contributors: Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Xing Hang, David Igler, Jeppe Mulich, Lisa Norling, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Carla Rahn Phillips, Catherine Phipps, Matthew Raffety, Margaret Schotte.

Book The Pen and Ink Sailor

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  • Author : John E. Talbott
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-09-13
  • ISBN : 1135230021
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Pen and Ink Sailor written by John E. Talbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examiner of the Navy and the First Lord of the Admiralty during the Trafalgar Campaign, Sir Charles Middleton was responsible for creating vital links between the naval shore establishment, policy makers in Whitehall and commanders at sea.

Book To be a Sailor s Wife

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  • Author : Hanna Hagmark-Cooper
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-17
  • ISBN : 1443837032
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book To be a Sailor s Wife written by Hanna Hagmark-Cooper and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The duality of maritime family life, the relationship between reconstruction and discourse and the symbolic status of the seafarer’s wife are at the core of this book, which brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore, widening the perspective of maritime history. Based on the collected life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands in Baltic Sea, Hanna Hagmark-Cooper draws attention to the cyclical nature of maritime family life and to the seafarers’ wives’ perception of leading two parallel lives: one when they are on their own and one with their husbands at home. The author considers how discourses change over time and colour narratives, and she investigates the women’s attitudes to the myths surrounding the image of the seafarer’s wife.

Book The Sailor s Sea Book  Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation

Download or read book The Sailor s Sea Book Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation written by James GREENWOOD (B.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea Breeze

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book The Sea Breeze written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailor Diplomat

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  • Author : Peter Mauch
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 1684175062
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Sailor Diplomat written by Peter Mauch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Japan’s pre–Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo (1877–1964) played a significant role in a tense and turbulent period in Japanese–U.S. relations. Scholars tend to view his actions and missteps as ambassador as representing the failure of diplomacy to avert the outbreak of hostilities between the two paramount Pacific powers.This extensively researched biography casts new light on the life and career of this important figure. Connecting his experiences as a naval officer to his service as foreign minister and ambassador, and later as “father” of Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Forces and proponent of the U.S.–Japanese alliance, this study reassesses Nomura’s contributions as a hard-nosed realist whose grasp of the underlying realities of Japanese–U.S. relations went largely unappreciated by the Japanese political and military establishment.

Book Union Jacks

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  • Author : Michael J. Bennett
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2005-12-15
  • ISBN : 0807863246
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Union Jacks written by Michael J. Bennett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.

Book New Essays on Billy Budd

Download or read book New Essays on Billy Budd written by Donald Yannella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book The Sailor s Magazine

Download or read book The Sailor s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hello Sailor

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  • Author : Paul Baker
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-10-23
  • ISBN : 1317868692
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Hello Sailor written by Paul Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness.

Book Sailor Scholar

Download or read book Sailor Scholar written by Barry D. Hunt and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond was "a unique phenomenon in the Victorian-Edwardian navy—a professionally competent and successful officer who was also an intellectual," writes the author. "This was enough to ensure that his progress would be stormy.'' This thoroughly documented biographical study of Richmond's professional career reveals a fully experienced, clear-thinking officer with a profound understanding of naval history, "a restless and uncompromising personality," and a passionate concern with naval strategy, the art of war, and the most effective training programme for officers. Richmond persistently challenged the accepted practices and prejudices of the naval profession. He and his small group of disciples, the "Young Turks," found themselves in the thick of the most crucial controversies in the British Navy. In spite of frequent official displeasure, however, Richmond became an influential naval historian and educator, responsible for the creation of the modern naval staff and the Imperial Defence College. The volume rests on extensive research in the official records and the private papers of Richmond and his close associates. It will interest not only naval historians, but also those with a general interest in the impact of one man's thought and actions on Britain's defence policy and the outcome of two World Wars.