Download or read book The Spy and A Question Of Latitude written by Richard Harding Davis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Longitude written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
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Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Download or read book Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spy Dreams Collection written by Tom Fugate and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined edition of the Lee Thomas Novels. These three books start the memoirs of Lee Thomas, a southern boy hired as a secret agent. Spy Dreams: The story begins with a mission that goes wrong. Sand Trap: Hostage rescue in Libya. Cigarettes for Two: the mid 1980's, cocaine, boats, fast cars and even Russian agents. The new spy in town has an accent and it is definitely not British.
Download or read book The Minnesota Horticulturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spy on the Submarine Or Over and Under the Sea written by Thomas Drayton Parker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Latitude 20 04 N Longitude 155 71 W written by R.K. Lindsey Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latitude 20.04N, Longitude 155.71W is a Hawaiian story told through snapshots and snippets of the lives of fabled and fictionalized family members named Lindsey, Beckley, and others. Through them, I recall bits and pieces of Hawaiis rich and glorious past, everyday folks living ordinary lives doing extraordinary things. I hope you, as the reader, will be able to relate to and find the tie that binds us as Gods childrenone planet, one people, one purpose. A wide swath of time is covered in this book of short chapters from the creation of the Hawaiian Islands (eighty million years ago), to the landing of our people at Waiahukini (AD 300), to the arrival of James Cook (1778) and the first New England Missionary Company (1820), to the establishment of sugar and pineapple plantations and cattle empires (1800s), and to the political trade winds that blew across the archipelago; and from chiefdoms to unified kingdom (1819), to provisional government (1893), to republic (1895), to territory (1900), and to statehood (1959). Holly Birch and Mister John are focal characters. Latitude 20.04N, Longitude 155.71W is history written in shorthand in a fun, interesting, and dynamic way. I started this journey with that intent. I hope I have achieved my intention. You be the judge. Always with aloha . . . Bob Lindsey.
Download or read book Looking for Longitude written by Katy Barrett and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
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Download or read book The Spy Who Couldn t Spell written by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI’s hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan—known as the Spy Who Couldn’t Spell. Before Edward Snowden’s infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell. In December of 2000, FBI Special Agent Steven Carr of the bureau’s Washington, D.C., office received a package from FBI New York: a series of coded letters from an anonymous sender to the Libyan consulate, offering to sell classified United States intelligence. The offer, and the threat, were all too real. A self-proclaimed CIA analyst with top secret clearance had information about U.S. reconnaissance satellites, air defense systems, weapons depots, munitions factories, and underground bunkers throughout the Middle East. Rooting out the traitor would not be easy, but certain clues suggested a government agent with a military background, a family, and a dire need for money. Leading a diligent team of investigators and code breakers, Carr spent years hunting down a dangerous spy and his cache of stolen secrets. In this fast-paced true-life spy thriller, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reveals how the FBI unraveled Regan’s strange web of codes to build a case against a man who nearly collapsed America's military security. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Download or read book From Gallegher to The Deserter written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Spy System From Within written by William Le Queux and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The German Spy System from Within" is a groundbreaking paintings of art thru William Le Queux that shows the call of the game international of spying at an important factor in records. This book goes into element about the difficult and mystery additives of the German undercover agent agent device. It gives a scary have a take a look at the strategies Germany used in advance than World War I. Le Queux, who's well-known for writing espionage novels, uses his real-life evaluations and capacity to do studies to decide out how Germany's spy machine works. The story is a captivating combo of facts and surprising statistics that deliver readers a study the spying operations that made geopolitical troubles worse. This book talks approximately how German spies were given into awesome factors of British society and what their plans and goals were. It moreover talks approximately the threats they faced. People might possibly have concept Le Queux's art work changed into too sensational, however it did help humans study greater about spying in the course of a hard time in European statistics. "The German Spy System from Within" remains a vintage item that indicates how humans concerned and suspected every extraordinary in the years before World War I. This expose is greater thrilling due to Le Queux's writing fashion, which mixes investigative journalism with dramatic storytelling. It is a high addition to the body of literature approximately espionage and overseas circle of relative’s individuals within the early twentieth century.
Download or read book JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Ultimate Collection 30 Adventure Novels Western Classics Sea Tales Including Travel Sketches Historical Writings and Biographies Illustrated written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 8313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "JAMES FENIMORE COOPER – Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels, Western Classics & Sea Tales; Including Travel Sketches, Historical Writings and Biographies (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie The Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe The Chainbearer The Redskins The Adventures of Miles Wallingford: Afloat and Ashore Miles Wallingford Other Novels: Precaution The Spy The Pilot The Red Rover The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish The Water-Witch The Bravo The Headsman The Monikins Homeward Bound Home as Found Mercedes of Castile The Two Admirals The Wing-and-Wing Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief Wyandotté The Crater Jack Tier The Oak Openings The Sea Lions Short Stories: Tales for Fifteen Imagination Heart The Lake Gun Travel Sketches: A Residence in France Excursion up the Rhine Second Visit to Switzerland Recollections of Europe Other Works: Ned Myers: A Life before the Mast New York: The Towns of Manhattan The Chronicles of Cooperstown Eclipse Criticism and Biographies: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury James Fenimore Cooper by Mary E. Phillips James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Before embarking on his career as a writer, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy, which greatly influenced many of his novels. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, tale of espionage in Revolutionary War. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans.
