Download or read book Desert Sailor written by James W. Fitch and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailor in the Desert written by David Gunn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailor in the Desert is the personal account of a Royal Navy sailor's experiences during the Mesopotamian campaign of 1915. As an able seaman on an armed sloop supporting the British expedition up the River Tigris, Philip Gunn's recollections give a rare perspective of this ill-fated campaign.At the outbreak of war, Phillip Gunn was serving on HMS Clio, a naval sloop fitted with sails and guns stationed in China and immediately tasked with hunting the soon-to-be-famous German cruiser Emden, but failed to prevent her escape. Gunn and Clio were next in action defending the Suez Canal against an attempted Turkish invasion before joining the expedition to invade Turkish-held Mesopotamia (Iraq). When the River Tigris became too shallow for Clio, Gunn took over a Calcutta River Police launch. He towed improvised gunboats to bombard the enemy in close support of the advancing land forces, whose assaults on enemy positions he witnessed. Though he repeatedly came under fire, it was malaria which finally struck him down during the pivotal Battle of Ctesiphon. He was fortunate to survive the journey back downriver. Sailor in the Desert is an authentic account drawn from Phillip Gunn's unpublished memoirs as well as conversations with the author, his son David. It is illustrated with archive photographs and colour paintings by Philip Gunn himself.As featured in the Cotswold Journal and Aberdeen Press & Journal.
Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.
Download or read book A Sailor in the Sahara written by Jamie Bruce Lockhart and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Clapperton was one of Africa's greatest 19th-century explorers. Seemingly forgotten for years, he is now brought to life in Jamie Bruce Lockhart's magnificent new biography. Clapperton was born in Annan in the Scottish borders in 1788. Like many Scots of his generation, he saw service at sea as the path to fame and riches in the British Empire. During the Napoleonic Wars, he served in the Mediterranean and the East Indies, and on the Great Lakes of Canada in the war with the United States. After his discharge as a lieutenant in 1817, boredom and thirst for adventure spurred him to exploration in Africa. He participated in two expeditions to map the Niger and the vast unexplored hinterland of the Guinea coast, and had command of the second of these - a full scale diplomatic mission to a region of huge importance to Britain's burgeoning political and commercial imperial interests. Jamie Bruce Lockhart has retraced Clapperton's footsteps and takes the reader through forest, desert and extremes of climate. In this vivid and sympathetic biography, the reader witnesses Clapperton's adventures, hopes, fears, misfortunes and his ultimately lonely fate.
Download or read book Further Adventures of the Desert Sailor 1950 1951 written by James Fitch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some readers complained about the abrupt end of Desert Sailor on the San Francisco waterfront in 1946 so the WW II sailor published a sequel that takes him and his bride through a new and much more enjoyable series of peacetime adventures. After his honorable discharge from the navy Fitch went to Harvard College as a GI Bill student. He fell for a pretty Irish Radcliffe girl in a Spanish class. In his senior year he won a Sheldon Travel Fellowship, graduated on a Thursday in June 1950 and married Claire Thompson the following Sunday. Three months later they were in South America. Follow their "Extreme Economy Class" travels, in which they covered 13,000 miles by rail, jitney, bus, truck, ferry, steamship and bulk grain carrier, through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Note from the Author Buyers of this book become contributors to a noble cause. I donate all royalty income to Fisher House Foundation. This charitable entity provides free lodging to needy families at 64 hotels, to date, near military hospitals from sea to shining sea. This makes it possible for our wounded warriors to be visited by their loved ones. It's my way of showing gratitude for the current generation of warriors who serve, protect and bleed for all of us. http: //fisherhouse.org
Download or read book The Lost Sailor written by Pam Conrad and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sailor famed for his seamanship and luck is shipwrecked on a tiny island, where his darkest hour gives rise to rescue and a new life.
Download or read book The Sailor written by Jack Lurlyn Walters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisit the later 1700's and the early 1800's to witness a story of a man who, From a pleasant and comfortable life, is thrown into a seemingly hopeless State. Authored by Jack Lurlyn Walters, The Sailor: A Novel of History and Adventure is a story of trials and tribulations, hope and victory. A picture of the book was on the left side of this Review, this review is a orginal written by your people Using historical events a backdrop for this adventure thriller, The Sailor please use this, it would be in your archive. I hope is the story of Jason Ashby-a young man loved and protected by his family on their farm estate but suddenly thrust into the world, facing adversaries who seek power that threaten all humans societies. Jason survives a shipwreck, desert treks, battles of war, and diseases by using his wits and allowing goodness to conquer evil, soon, his integrity brings him to a triumphant end, where all his struggles are put to rest. How he comes out victorious from the pitfalls of a terrible fate awaits the reader. With goodness as the underlying concept, The sailor shows how even the Most tragic situations can be surpassed through faith and strong will. This Book brings inspiration to all men and women of today, albeit set in a period Longs ago.
Download or read book Riverine written by Don Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrolling the Mekong Delta's Bassac River in heavily armed fiberglass boats, the U.S. Navy's brown-water sailors took the war to the enemy in some of the most extraordinary operations of the Vietnam War. Here is the first important memoir to come out of the brown-water navy, by a former Lieutenant Commander.
Download or read book The United States Navy in Desert Shield Desert Storm written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sailors Magazine and Seamen s Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sailor s Magazine and Naval Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Desert and Its Seed written by Jorge Barón Biza and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned Raúl Barón Biza (a wealthy politician and notorious writer) and his wife Rosa Clotilde Sabattini The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia’s face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the acid from Eligia’s face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a fruitless attempt to reconstruct Eligia’s face—first in Buenos Aires, thereafter in Milan. Mario, the narrator, becomes the shadow and witness of the reconstruction attempts to repair his mother’s outraged flesh. In this role, he must confront his own terrible existence and identity, both of which are bound to an Argentina he sees disintegrating around him. Based on a true, tragic family story, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed was rejected by publishers in Buenos Aires and was finally self-published in 1998, three years before the author committed suicide. Written in a captivating plain style with dark, bitter humor, The Desert and Its Seed has become a modern classic, published to enormous acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world and translated into many languages.
Download or read book Desert Sailor written by James T. Hewitt and published by Clementsport, N.S. : Canadian Peacekeeping Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sailor s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sailor s Adventures written by Friedrich Gerstäcker and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Every Sailor His Own Lawyer the Rights of Seamen written by Isaac Ridler Butts and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldier Sailor Beggarman Thief written by Clive Emsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.
