Download or read book Memorials of the Goodwin Sands and Their Surroundings Legendary and Historical written by George Byng Gattie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorials of the Goodwin Sands and Their Surroundings Legendary and Historical written by George Byng Gattie and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book tells the history and legends surrounding the Goodwin Sands, a treacherous sandbank off the coast of Kent, England. With fascinating details about shipwrecks, ghosts, and more, this book is a must-read for those interested in maritime history and the supernatural. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Heroes of the Goodwin Sands written by Thomas Stanley Treanor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorials of the Goodwin Sands written by George Byng Gattie and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorials of the Goodwin Sands: And Their Surroundings, Legendary and Historical In a great commercial country like England it is perhaps only natural to suppose that anything and everything concerning her ships, her sailors, and her commerce would be a source of much interest to, at least, a fairly large section of the community. It was therefore thought that a sketch might not be altogether unacceptable embracing the history, legendary as well as accredited, of a singular region which for centuries has been only too celebrated as the most dangerous spot on the British coasts, and which is known to have been, and indeed still is, the "grave of many a tall and stately ship," together with its crew and cargo. Nothing of the kind, so far as the writer is aware, has hitherto ever been attempted; for, excepting short notices in county histories, encyclopaedias, gazetteers, guide books, and in Mr. Whymper's work on 'The Sea, ' the famous "Goodwins" have never yet been made the subject of any complete account dealing historically with the Sands, and the remarkable events of which their immediate surroundings have been so often the theatre during the last eight hundred years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Goodwin Sands written by George Goldsmith Carter and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelson s Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelson s Perpetual Loose leaf Encyclopaedia written by John Huston Finley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelson s Perpetual Loose leaf Encyclop dia written by John Huston Finley and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Bella Bathurst and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “entertaining” historical investigation into the scavengers who have profited off the spoils of maritime disasters (The Washington Post). Even today, Britain’s coastline remains a dangerous place. It is an island soaked by four separate seas, with shifting sand banks to the east, veiled reefs to the west, powerful currents above, and the world’s busiest shipping channel below. The country’s offshore waters are strewn with shipwrecks—and for villagers scratching out an existence along Britain’s shores, those wrecks have been more than simply an act of God; in many cases, they have been the difference between living well and just getting by. Though Daphne du Maurier and Poldark have made Cornwall famous as Britain’s most notorious region for wrecking, many other coastal communities regarded the “sea’s bounty” as a way of providing themselves with everything from grapefruits to grand pianos. Some plunderers were held to be so skilled that they could strip a ship from stem to stern before the Coast Guard had even left port. Some were rumored to lure ships onto the rocks with false lights, and some simply waited for winter gales to do their work. This book uncovers tales of ships and shipwreck victims—from shoreline orgies so Dionysian that few participants survived the morning to humble homes fitted with silver candelabra, from coastlines rigged like stage sets to villages where everyone owns identical tennis shoes. Spanning three hundred years of history, The Wreckers examines the myths, realities, and superstitions of shipwrecks and uncovers the darker side of life on Britain’s shores. “Bathurst, who won a Somerset Maugham Award for The Lighthouse Stevensons, offers a spellbinding tale of seafaring men, their ships and the ocean that cares for neither.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating, haunting account of pillagers, plunderers, and pirates.” —John Burnett, author of Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
Download or read book Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey written by Arthur Penrhyn STANLEY (Dean of Westminster.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Britain written by T.R. Holmes and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Supplement to the Catalogue issued in 1884 of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments written by Worcester Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chamber s Concise Gazetteer of the World written by David Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hist Memorials of Westminster Abbey written by Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First third and Final Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into and to Report on Certain Questions Affecting Coast Erosion the Reclamation of Tidal Lands and Afforestation in the United Kingdom written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Coast Erosion and Afforestation and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
