Download or read book The Happy Sailor Of China written by Jillian Lin and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zheng's grandfather has been to many places. Zheng would love to travel, too. Can he make his dream come true? Children aged 2 to 5 will enjoy the story of the explorer Zheng He (郑和), who is thought to have discovered America before Columbus. This book is part of the 'Heroes of China' series in which Jillian Lin retells tales of famous Chinese figures so they are easy and fun to read. Beautiful illustrations make these books wonderful early readers or read-aloud stories in English and Chinese.
Download or read book The Happy Sailor of China written by Jillian Lin and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zheng's grandfather has been to many places. Zheng would love to travel, too. Can he make his dream come true? Children aged 2 to 5 will enjoy the story of the explorer Zheng He, who is thought to have discovered America before Columbus. This bilingual book is part of the Heroes of China series in which Jillian Lin retells tales of famous Chinese figures so they are easy and fun to read. Beautiful illustrations make these books wonderful early readers or read-aloud stories in English and Chinese. Other titles in the series include: The First Emperor Of China (Qin Shihuang) The Wise Teacher Of China (Confucius) The Music Man Of China (Zhu Zaiyu) The Clever Doctor Of China (Hua Tuo) The Girl Emperor Of China (Wu Zetian) The Star Gazer Of China (Zhang Heng) The Pirate King Of China (Koxinga/Zheng Chenggong) Also available as e-books on www.amazon.com. For more information, visit www.jillianlin.com
Download or read book Our Boys in China The Thrilling Story of Two Young Americans Scott and Paul Clayton Wrecked in the China Sea on Their Return from India with Their Strange Adventures in China written by Harry Willard French and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Our Boys in China written by Harry Willard French and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zheng He written by Corona Brezina and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zheng He was the commander of a vast Chinese fleet known as the treasure fleet. In the early fifteenth century, he led the fleet on seven journeys throughout the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, serving as ambassador to the barbarian nations in need of a civilizing influence. Under Zheng He’s command, the Chinese treasure fleet achieved one of the most impressive maritime displays the world had ever seen. This engaging volume covers the fleet’s travels, which covered more than 40,000 miles and included sea routes along the Silk Road, to cities and kingdoms from southern Asia to east Africa.
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:
Download or read book The Sailor s Magazine and Naval Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Sailor written by Allan Jones and published by Allan Jones. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cruise ship officer from Hong Kong disappears during a port stop in Holyhead on the North Wales coast and a missing person investigation turns up no leads. On the same cruise, an international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three valuable Russian paintings thought to be on board. Four months later the younger sister of the missing sailor becomes a student at Bangor University, nearby. The Metropolitan Police Art Crime Unit wants to know why she is in the UK and whether it has any bearing on their case. Constable Catrin Sayer is looking for promotion and a new role away from drug squad work in Brixton. Coincidence and her Welsh background lead her to go undercover and assist the investigation. She is twenty-four at the time; keen, ambitious, trying to balance her work as a police officer with her interests as an artist, a ceramic decorator.
Download or read book The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zheng He written by Edward L. Dreyer and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography, part of Longman's World Biography series, of the Chinese explorer Zheng He sheds new light on one of the most important "what if" questions of early modern history: why a technically advanced China did not follow the same path of development as the major European powers. Written by China scholar Edward L. Dreyer, Zheng He outlines what is known of the eunuch Zheng He's life and describes and analyzes the early 15th century voyages on the basis of the Chinese evidence. Locating the voyages firmly within the context of early Ming history,itaddresses the political motives of Zheng He's voyages and how they affected China's exclusive attitude to the outside world in subsequent centuries.
Download or read book The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom written by John Pomfret and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.
Download or read book Sea Power written by Admiral James Stavridis, USN and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world’s oceans from the admiral’s chair, showing us how the geography of the oceans has shaped the destiny of nations, and how naval power has in a real sense made the world we live in today, and will shape the world we live in tomorrow. Not least, Sea Power is marvelous naval history, giving us fresh insight into great naval engagements from the battles of Salamis and Lepanto through to Trafalgar, the Battle of the Atlantic, and submarine conflicts of the Cold War. It is also a keen-eyed reckoning with the likely sites of our next major naval conflicts, particularly the Arctic Ocean, Eastern Mediterranean, and the South China Sea. Finally, Sea Power steps back to take a holistic view of the plagues to our oceans that are best seen that way, from piracy to pollution. When most of us look at a globe, we focus on the shape of the of the seven continents. Admiral Stavridis sees the shapes of the seven seas. After reading Sea Power, you will too. Not since Alfred Thayer Mahan’s legendary The Influence of Sea Power upon History have we had such a powerful reckoning with this vital subject.
Download or read book The Pilot or Sailors magazine Continued as Sailors magazine written by British and foreign sailors' society and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Blockades written by Chaplin Chang and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although only 10 stories here yet they interestingly revealed how the writer at his teens, handicapped with limited education and funds, was forced to cheat his way into Chinese and British Navy to become a sailor and later worked as chief officer on freighters running through the blockades; how he dealt in Communist China when confronted with Communist's irrational teenage cadres and what happened when Nationalist's special-agent wanted him to hyjack the ship to Taiwan. Then what did he do when seeing a lady jumping overboard which also brought out another story about a man stopped at the brink of jumping down the tallest building in Canton and started a new life in Macao. The writer also recorded his long, unfulfilled secret love affair that spilled out the thousand-year-old inhuman tradition in China; the effect on a man when nepotism and the closely-circled territory before and during early nineteen forties in the old Chinese Navy; how a British sailor sacrificed his opportunity to join his ship in order to help an unknown Chinese sailor in England; then in Hong Kong, the power-struggling for the control of a ship and her 'human-cargo' (soldiers) during the civil war in China. Fascinating and informative stories.
Download or read book A Haunted House written by Virginia Woolf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass' Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's daring experimentations with style and form more evident than in her short stories, which shimmer and flash with their author's peculiar genius. Collected by Leonard Woolf and published after her death, this is a complete collection of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction. It is a fascinating and vivid introduction for readers new to Woolf, and a necessary companion for devotees. Includes 'A Haunted House', 'Kew Gardens', 'A Mark on the Wall' and 42 other pieces. Edited, with introductions and notes by Susan Dick. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON
Download or read book Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
