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Book The Three Sailors  Gambit

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  • Author : Lord Dunsany
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-08-24
  • ISBN : 1681463415
  • Pages : 14 pages

Download or read book The Three Sailors Gambit written by Lord Dunsany and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They lost three pawns almost straight off, then a knight, and shortly after a bishop; they were playing in fact the famous Three Sailors' Gambit.

Book Three sailors

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  • Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Three sailors written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Three Sailors

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  • Author : Enid Blyton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book The Three Sailors written by Enid Blyton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Three Sailors

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  • Author : Midori Bamba
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-09
  • ISBN : 9780983501398
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book The Three Sailors written by Midori Bamba and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a massive storm in 1832, three men are stranded at sea on their broken ship for more than 400 days and hope for just two things--to survive their ordeal and to find safe passage home to Japan. Left in the middle of the sea with not much else to eat but rice, teenage boys Oto and Kyu, and their older, spiritually strong helmsman, Iwa, are tossed from one ordeal to the next.

Book The Three Sailors

Download or read book The Three Sailors written by Keith Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sail Away Series

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  • Author : Keith Gardner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Sail Away Series written by Keith Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Sailors

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  • Author : Midori Bamba
  • Publisher : Koehler Books
  • Release : 2012-07
  • ISBN : 9781938467097
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Three Sailors written by Midori Bamba and published by Koehler Books. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dramatic! Suspenseful! Fascinating! Educational!" Jana "The Three Sailors took me to a time and places that were new to me. For its historical and geographical content alone made it a great read. I have told the author I am looking forward to the movie made from this book." Dr. Jerome Schonfeld "How do three Japanese men survive over a year at sea in a badly damaged ship? The Three Sailors is an awe-inspiring story of resourcefulness, perseverance, faith, and the will to live." Jill Burr, Librarian, Virginia Beach Public Library The Three Sailors chronicles the fictionalized retelling of one of the most arduous passages in history. After a massive storm in 1832, three men are stranded at sea on their broken ship for over four hundred days and hope for just two things-to survive their ordeal and to find safe passage home to Japan. Left in the middle of the sea with not much else to eat but rice, teenage boys Oto and Kyu, and their older, spiritually strong helmsman, Iwa, are tossed from one ordeal to the next. As they travel from Japan to Vancouver to "Slave Island" and Macao, the three Japanese sailors battle not only the unpredictable elements, but also their failing spirits, slavery, and their own government officials. Sustained by eating seaweed and shellfish that miraculously adheres to the side of their ship, the three men soon realize that finding their way back home proves to be a more difficult and dangerous journey than any of them ever expected. In this realistic seafaring saga that will engage history fans and adventure buffs alike, three brave sailors will come full circle and face their final fate.

Book Sweetwater Sailors

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  • Author : Bob Ojala
  • Publisher : The Unapologetic Voice House
  • Release : 2021-02-16
  • ISBN : 1734569352
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Sweetwater Sailors written by Bob Ojala and published by The Unapologetic Voice House . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip on the Great Lakes with Sweetwater Sailors. This entertaining, historical and factual book brings you up close and personal with Great Lakes Merchant Mariners, both men and women, including the only American woman Captain of a large Great Lakes ore carrier. You'll have a first person perspective on the jobs they perform and what makes them continue working in a potentially dangerous profession, which keeps them away from home most of the year. Great Lakes merchant sailors provided photographs of their own experiences and collaborated with the author, Bob Ojala by sharing many interesting and funny stories of their years on the Great Lakes. If you're interested in the history of the Great Lakes, ships of all kinds, and women in atypical careers, will enjoy this book. The author spent four years in the U.S. Coast Guard, 17 years as a ship Surveyor with the American Bureau of Shipping, nearly 9 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has managed in his own business as a marine consultant for 30 years. Bob is still active in the marine industry. His father was a Merchant Mariner for 32 years, giving Bob the interest in the Maritime Industry, his hundreds of contacts with sailors, and his respect for their profession.

Book At the Mercy of the Sea

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  • Author : John Kretschmer
  • Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
  • Release : 2009-12-18
  • ISBN : 0071743065
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book At the Mercy of the Sea written by John Kretschmer and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The tale of Carl Wake and the hurricane that was waiting for him goes straight to the heart of the greatest sea stories: they are not about man against the sea, but man against himself. John Kretschmer’s book is as perfectly shaped and flawlessly written as such a story can be. In addition to being the best depiction I have ever read of what it is like to be inside a hurricane at sea, At the Mercy of the Sea is as moving a story of a man’s failure and redemption as can be found anywhere in the literature of the sea. This book is surely destined to become a classic.”—Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen “John Kretschmer has transformed this story of three men on a collision course with a hurricane into a modern seafaring classic.”—Peter Nielsen, editor of SAIL magazine “With expert analysis and taut writing, he draws readers into that mad storm. You can’t turn away. You keep reading until it breaks your heart.”—Fred Grimm, columnist for the Miami Herald “Once begun, his vivid and powerful narrative is impossible to put down.”—Derek Lundy, author of Godforsaken Sea and The Way of a Ship “I felt I knew Carl Wake, because John Kretschmer found in him an archetype—an aging sailor with an age-old dream.”—Jim Carrier, transatlantic sailor and author of The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome “A remarkable book, impossible to put down.”—Herb McCormick, sailing journalist

Book From Captives to Consuls

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  • Author : Brett Goodin
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 1421438976
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book From Captives to Consuls written by Brett Goodin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archival collections, newspapers, private correspondence, and government documents, From Captives to Consuls sheds new light on the significance of ordinary individuals in guiding early American ideas of science, international relations, and what it meant to be a self-made man.

Book The Butter and Egg Man

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  • Author : George Simon Kaufman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book The Butter and Egg Man written by George Simon Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes

Download or read book Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.

Book Citizen Sailors

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  • Author : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-12
  • ISBN : 0674915550
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Citizen Sailors written by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors’ pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all races—nearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government’s most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government’s most explicit recognition of black Americans’ equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood.

Book Favorite American Waltzes for Fiddle

Download or read book Favorite American Waltzes for Fiddle written by Stacy Phillips and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the reissue of the classic Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes - Volume 2, Favorite American Waltzes for Fiddle presents over 110 classic and lesser-known country waltzes from all parts of the United States, some with multiple versions. All the pieces are transcribed from performances of the greatest traditional fiddlers of the past and present including Benny Thomasson, Howdy Forrester, J. T. Perkins, Lloyd Wanzer, Jay Ungar, Vivian Williams, Skip Gorman, Texas Shorty, Kenny Baker, and dozens more. Bowings and chord accompaniment are included. This book will also be of value to students of classical music and Suzuki trained children. Teachers, are you looking for short pieces that will solidify scales yet won't bore your students? Tired of the same old classical etudes? Waltzes are played slowly enough to not be intimidating but also serve as effective and fun exercises for all violin students, not just fiddlers. the arrangements range from easy (single notes, first position) to advanced (double stops and upper positions). and they illustrate America's great tradition of fiddling.

Book The Pilot  or Sailors  magazine   Continued as  Sailors  magazine

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 1835 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Three Sailors  Gambit

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  • Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 5 pages

Download or read book The Three Sailors Gambit written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sailors  and Soldiers  Magazine

Download or read book The Sailors and Soldiers Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: