Download or read book The Armchair Navigator II written by Steve Dehner and published by Bad Tattoo Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additions to and corrections of earlier sources in regard to Post-Spanish discoveries in the Pacific Ocean.
Download or read book THE ARMCHAIR NAVIGATOR I written by Steve Dehner and published by Bad Tattoo Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: some supposed (by me) revisions or supplements of or changes to the discovery of modern Oeno Island, Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands overseas territory) ; Fanning Atoll ; Palmyra Atoll ; Kingman Reef ; Rawaki ; Abariringa; Baker Island ; Vaitupu ; Niutao ; Nikumaroro (TIGAR / aviatrix Amelia Earhart) ; Carondelet Reef; Winslow Reef.
Download or read book The Armchair Navigator III written by Steve Dehner and published by Bad Tattoo Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 3 in a series of essays providing supplements and corrections to what is currently known about the post-Spanish discoveries of the Pacific islands. Just for the fun of it. In this issue: - The stranding of whaler "Mary" of London on Jarvis Island (United States Minor Outlying Islands) - A summary of (re-)discoveries of the Wake and Johnston Atolls. - Antipodes Island, probably discovered in 1799 (thus prior to Capt. Henry Waterhouse's sighting in 1800) - The 1810 rediscovery of Flint Island (Line Islands, Kiribati) by Capt. Obed Chase. - The conjectured route of the 1801-1802 voyage of ship "Venus" of Port Jackson, Capts. Charles Bishop & George Bass (during which trip Bass discovers Mauke in the Cook Islands archipelago and Marotiri, part of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.)
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Download or read book Cockpit Commander A Navigator s Life written by Bruce Gibson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously self-published by the author, this book charts the course of a dramatic career as a Wing Commander. Living through one of the most dynamic periods in military and Aviation development history, Bruce Gibson saw events play out from his elevated aerial position. His fascinating story will appeal to a wide audience, focussing as it does not only upon Aviation concerns. From life as a mischievous child living in the East End of London, to realising his true direction and joining the RAF Air Volunteer Reserves in 1937, and then the Royal Air Force, and beyond into Aviation ventures in a Civilian capacity. His amusing observations and anecdotes provide the most colourful insight into life during the monochromatic blackout years of World War II, and beyond.Many historical records and operational logs are available on the market to those looking for cold facts and statistical analyses of events; this account features the human tales, the anecdotes and spirit of camaraderie which characterised Gibson's experiences.
Download or read book The Natural Navigator written by Tristan Gooley and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.
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Download or read book To Master the Boundless Sea written by Jason W. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.
Download or read book Windy Arbours written by Aidan Higgins and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.
Download or read book An Outline of a Theory of Civilization written by Yukichi Fukuzawa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's most sustained philosophical text, Fukuzawa translates and adapts a range of Western works for a Japanese audience, establishing the social, cultural, and political avenues through which Japan could connect with other countries. Echoing the ideas of Western contemporaries such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, Fukuzawa encouraged a grassroots elevation of the individual and national spirit, as well as free initiative in the private domain. Fukuzawa's bold project articulated thoughts that, for him, bolstered the material evidence of Western civilization. He argued that the essential difference separating Western countries from Japan and Asia was the extent to which citizens acted like free and responsible individuals. This careful new translation, accompanied by a comprehensive critical introduction, highlights the truly transnational aspects of Outline of a Theory of Civilization and its status as a foundational text of modern Japanese civilization. Approaching Fukuzawa's progressive thought with a fresh eye, these scholars elucidate the monumental and peerless quality of his work.
Download or read book Winter in Fireland written by Nicholas Coghlan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures in Patagonia when, taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s, he and Jenny explored the region of southern Argentina and Chile over three successive summers. This time, as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on voyages of past explorers: Magellan, Cook, Darwin, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlan's world-wise narrative to their libraries.