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Book The Master Mariner

Download or read book The Master Mariner written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bitter days that followed Trafalgar, Matthew Lawe watched as England mourned her greatest sailor son and then turned sadly away, a man damned to live forever. If damned he was then he'd take the trade of the damned, as master of a slaver bound out of Liverpool for the hellhole ports of Africa and the Caribbean paradise of rum and tobacco and trader's gold ...

Book Master Mariner

Download or read book Master Mariner written by Philip Rentell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.

Book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Download or read book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bligh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Mundle
  • Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
  • Release : 2013-01-19
  • ISBN : 1783378417
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Bligh written by Rob Mundle and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald). The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors. From ship’s boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a twenty-four-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his captain and mentor, Cook; a thirty-four-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic forty-seven-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a thirty-six-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand voyage to Tahiti and back. This book goes beyond the character we’ve seen in movies—into the real life of a complex and remarkable seaman.

Book Master Mariner

Download or read book Master Mariner written by and published by L. Ron Hubbard. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sail with L. Ron Hubbard and navigate his immense nautical legacy. View the ships' logs chronicling his voyages, his photographic records and previously unpublished essays telling of a life at sea and a “Master of Any Vessel on Any Ocean.”

Book Joseph Conrad

Download or read book Joseph Conrad written by Peter Villiers and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master's ticket and commanding the barque Otago. This book traces his sea-career, and shows how Captain Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, master mariner, became Joseph Conrad, master novelist. In addition to a new analysis of Conrad as mariner, the book contains a wealth of detail about the merchant service in the late nineteenth century-the economics of sail, the cargoes, the competition with steam, the skill and teamwork required to maneuver a windjammer, the harsh realities and dangers of everyday life at sea.

Book The Master Mariner  Book 2

Download or read book The Master Mariner Book 2 written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by New York : Morrow. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Running Proud, Matthew Lawe continues his 400-year odyssey by shipping on an illegal slave trader in the year 1808.

Book Captain John Kemp MBE

Download or read book Captain John Kemp MBE written by Eric Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rime of the Modern Mariner

Download or read book The Rime of the Modern Mariner written by Nick Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, timely update on the classic Coleridge poem Is it possible to update a masterpiece? Only, perhaps, with a brand-new masterpiece. Written in 1797, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the original eco-fable; drawn in 2010, The Rime of the Modern Mariner is a graphic novel, now set in the cesspool of the North Atlantic Garbage Patch—thus adding a timely and resonant message about the destruction of our seas. Hayes’s visually striking debut is drawn with complex, iconic images reminiscent of old woodcuts. Emerging from every exquisite page are the poem’s enduring themes: compassion for nature, a sense of connection among all living things, and rightful outrage at man’s thoughtless destruction of the environment. Powerful and evocative, lush and stark, The Rime of the Modern Mariner will appeal to fans of Habibi and Persepolis.

Book Practice Wisdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joy Higgs
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2019-07-01
  • ISBN : 900441049X
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Practice Wisdom written by Joy Higgs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice Wisdom: Values and Interpretations brings diverse views and interpretations to an exploration of what wisdom in professional practice means and can become: academically, practically and inspirationally.

Book The Master Mariner

Download or read book The Master Mariner written by Nina Sood and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoress' life experiences as a mariner's wife.

Book Shiphandling for the Mariner

Download or read book Shiphandling for the Mariner written by Daniel H. MacElrevey and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 5th edition, Shiphandling for the Mariner is the classic and definitive text on the art of practical shiphandling skills for large, modern commercial vessels. Written by a father and son team of pilots, along with contributions from other expert pilots and shipmasters, this compendium follows a nontechnical format that stresses maneuvers used routinely in the field. The text covers essential maneuvers used in docking, undocking, and shiphandling, plus uncommon maneuvers such as docking at single-point and multiple-buoy moorings, use of anchors in shiphandling, offshore lightering, and transiting of locks and canals. Bridge practices in pilot waters and training techniques, including simulator training are also discussed. Updated for the 5th edition: squat and under keel clearance, current practices for bridge resource management, and the use of laptop navigation systems and ECDIS in pilotage waters. Shiphandling for the Mariner is ideal for those with a foundation of practical knowledge looking to advance and master shiphandling skills that are essential to the marine profession.

Book The Practical Mariner s Book of Knowledge  2nd Edition

Download or read book The Practical Mariner s Book of Knowledge 2nd Edition written by John Vigor and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is this an entertaining book? The Practical Mariner’s Book of Knowledge is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. In its alphabetical organization that juxtaposes wildly disparate entries, you can read about the derivation of fi gureheads where you turned to for recommended thicknesses of fiberglass hulls. In between the whimsy, however, is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience distilled into a concise reference for sailors and powerboaters. There may be no substitute for a lifetime of experience, but this book is the next best thing. It should be kept at the navigation station and on every boat. Inside you will find information that is otherwise scattered through dozens of volumes. If you can't find what you want quickly from the table of contents, there's an exhaustive subject index. If you need more precise data than a rule of thumb can provide, you may very well find it among the 16 appendix tables, which are also indexed. You'll find rules of thumb for: Changing a boat's name Towing the safest way Burial at sea Preventing wood rot Hull thickness Anchoring rights Jib size Curing mast vibration Time taken for boat tasks Survival rations And a lot more: open it up and get lost in the sage advice and witty wisdom that will make you long for the sea. "The perfect, practical gift to give or receive." -- The Ensign ". . . reads like a lively conversation with a friendly, seasoned pro." -- Lakeland Boating

Book Ships  Sea Songs and Shanties

Download or read book Ships Sea Songs and Shanties written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Master Mariner

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Monsarrat
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2012-05-24
  • ISBN : 0755131657
  • Pages : 731 pages

Download or read book The Master Mariner written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Monsarrat's masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Mathew Lawe, a young sailor, is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander 'the wild waters till all the seas run dry', it is historical fiction beset by real events.

Book The Master Mariner

Download or read book The Master Mariner written by Nicholas Montsarrat and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Survival Guide for the Mariner

Download or read book Survival Guide for the Mariner written by Robert J. Meurn and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seafarers must be prepared to cope with the worst situations that the sea can offer. In this new edition, Meurn gives seamen the most up-to-date information in avoiding and dealing with dangers at sea. Topics include abandon ship procedures, crew overboard, search and rescue techniques, and survival methods. Since this book can be used as a text for those preparing to be Coast Guard certified lifeboatmen, the appendices contain lifeboat, rescue boat, and rigid life raft equipment descriptions, inspection guidelines, and sample Coast Guard examination questions and answers.