Download or read book Lights and Shadows of Sailor Life written by Joseph G. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lights and Shadows of a Sailor Life written by Joseph Clark and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The View from the Masthead written by Hester Blum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines the first-person narratives of working sailors, from little-known sea tales to more famous works by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Henry Dana. In their narratives, sailors wrote about how their working lives coexisted with--indeed, mutually drove--their imaginative lives. Even at leisure, they were always on the job site. Blum analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea. She argues that the extent of sailors' literacy and the range of their reading were unusual for a laboring class, belying the popular image of Jack Tar as merely a swaggering, profane, or marginal figure. As Blum demonstrates, seamen's narratives propose a method for aligning labor and contemplation that has broader applications for the study of American literature and history.

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Download or read book The Games of Light and Shadow written by Olga Gomon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different people live here on Earth. There are those of us whose lives only for a half belong to the visible world. Such people understand the language of animals and hear what the grass sings at dawn. They know the will of gods and live according to the laws of the Universe. They feel every living being on Earth as themselves, filled with love and tenderness to every one without exception. In the Christian tradition they are called saints. In Hindu tradition – sadhu. In Buddhism – the enlightened. When and how do such people realize who they are? How do they find the Teachers who help to know their essence and to reveal their abilities? In the first book of the series Master Olga Gomon tells about her way, her magical childhood and her first teachers.

Download or read book The New Sabin written by Lawrence Sidney Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book America s naval heritage A Catalog of Early Imprints From the Navy Department Library written by Thomas Truxtun Moebs and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York Supplement Accessions March 1866 to October 1869 Accessions to Dec 15 1869 written by Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book On the Northwest written by Robert Lloyd Webb and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.

Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction Including Juveniles and Translations written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

Download or read book America s Naval Heritage written by Thomas Truxtun Moebs and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.