Download or read book Windjammers written by Ivan Walton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.
Download or read book The Last of the Windjammers written by Basil Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Windjammers written by Oliver E. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Windjammers written by Basil Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning the Ropes written by Eric Newby and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit and nostalgia--and through radiant photographs that evoke a vanished maritime world--a master storyteller looks back on a youthful adventure that taught him the ways of the sea and ships. 160 photos.
Download or read book Barefoot Pirate written by Ed Crowell and published by Square One Pub. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of one man's pursuit of an unshakable dream--a true story of swashbuckling adventures, classic tall ships, and a sailor's determination to prove himself right. It is the personal account of Captain Mike Burke and the Windjammer Barefoot Cruise line he built with his barefoot spirit and his iron will to succeed. This book offers an insider's view of how Captain Mike managed to save classic sailing ships from destruction, and put together one of the finest fleets in the world. Also included are stories of ships once owned by Aristotle Onassis, E.F. Hutton and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post, and George Vanderbilt III, to mention only a few. While you may never experience the excitement of boarding a tall ship or feel the sea spray on your face as your ship glides through the ocean, you can come close by sharing these stories and pictures.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Windjammers written by Robert Carter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of interviews, diary extracts and stories. All illustrated with 42 of Robert Carter's beautiful and detailed paintings. They are not just illustrations of ships. Each comes with its own description, revealing more about the days of sail. Includes photographs, line drawings and maps. The book reveals real life stories from the final 50 years in the life of the last commercial sailing ships which ended in 1959.
Download or read book The Wind jammers written by Thornton Jenkins Hains and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Home at Sea written by Anne Mahle and published by Baggywrinkle Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recipes and stories At Home, At Sea recreate life on a Maine windjammer- a week in a different world, a different century- with homemade, old world food cooked with fire and passion. In these pages you?ll find memories of the Age of Sail- the gleam of brass, the sound of the wind in the rigging, and the delicious smells of Maine cooking ? baked bread from the woodstove, steamed lobster, hearty stews, and mouthwatering deserts ? all from the gallery of the Schooner J. & E. Riggin.
Download or read book The Windjammers written by Oliver E. Allen and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1978 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated text discusses the windjammer sailing ships and the lives of the men who sailed them.
Download or read book Cold Coast written by Jenifer LeClair and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award Winning Author Jenifer LeClair Delivers A Taut Thriller That Builds To A Shattering Climax Set Against the Rugged Maine Coast and the Bay Of Fundy A Landscape Both Beautiful and Unforgiving Detective Brie Beaumont teams with the Maine State Police to investigate a grisly murder away Down East near the village of Tucker Harbor, Maine. A second death, a four-year-old mystery involving a research scientist, and a mysterious unexplained phenomenon draw Brie into an ever-tightening web of intrigue and danger. Themes of isolation and the destructive power of secrets play hauntingly throughout this gripping thriller, the third in Jenifer LeClairs acclaimed Windjammer Mystery Series.
Download or read book The House of Windjammer written by V. A. Richardson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1636, Adam, fourteen-year-old heir to the House of Windjammer, must find a way to keep his family afloat after his father dies and tulip fever sweeps Amsterdam.
Download or read book The Great Windships written by Brian Stafford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great merchant sailing ships were the original apparatus of globalisation. They brought the East and West together, carrying goods back and forth to the benefit of both, and turning world’s oceans into marine highways. Along them would travel all manner of goods in unheard of volumes – gold, silver, gems, spices coffee, tea and other foodstuffs – as well as ideas, attitudes, religion and disease. Besides their superior armament, the ships’ masters felt they were racially and religiously superior. Their vessels became instruments of colonial conquest, aiding the rise of the West over the much more populous East. They also enabled the opium and slave trades. For better and for worse, they made the modern world. The Great Windships tells an epic story that stretches from the fragile vessels of the Age of Exploration to the mighty windjammers of the late nineteenth century. It follows how the nations of the West participated in this great adventure – their triumphs and shortcomings and the contributions each made to the development of the sailing ship. Full of drama, deceit, high-seas adventure and knowledge, this is a book for anyone who’s ever gazed in awe at a mighty tall ship; or been curious as to their ability and the vital role in the evolution of the modern world.
Download or read book Danger Sector written by Jenifer LeClair and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a leave of absence from work, Brie goes to Sentinel Island to repair a lighthouse with a sailing crew and winds up investigating a local artist's sudden disappearance, which becomes difficult as the locals refuse to help her.
Download or read book Around Cape Horn written by Charles Davis and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. During the first half of the last century, he was also acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright.
Download or read book The Ship and the Storm Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome written by Jim Carrier and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Utterly compulsive and unputdownable--the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced. . . . Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator. . . . A terrific book."--Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings and Bad Land: An American Romance "A wonderful story. An extremely well-written account of the events as I knew them. I commend Jim Carrier for a magnificent job."--Jerry D. Jarrell, Director, National Hurricane Center In October 1998, the majestic schooner Fantome came face-to-face with one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history. The last days of the Fantome are reconstructed in vivid and heartbreaking detail through Jim Carrier's extensive research and hundreds of personal interviews. What emerges is a story of courage, hubris, the agony of command, the weight of lives versus wealth, and the advances of science versus the terrible power and unpredictability of nature.
Download or read book Square Rigger Days written by Charles W. Domvillefife and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few books that describe accurately life on board sailing ships in the last days of sail, from the 1860s to the First World War; the romantic image conjured up by many who wrote from a safe distance belies the harsh realities which were a sailorman's lot. Domville-Fife, in collecting together the personal stories of seamen while they were still alive, was able to present a truer picture of the tough last days of sail. Long voyages on board nineteenth-century sailing ships were marked by isolation, boredom, and miserable living conditions that taxed the endurance of men already hard pressed by the gruelling and dangerous nature of shipboard work. While some were attracted to a life of adventure most simply went to sea for a living, and a meagre one at that. They experienced neither the excitement of life on the crack clippers of the earlier decades nor the safety of the steamships; they were caught in the limbo of a dying profession where poor pay, discontinuous employment, prolonged isolation from family and physical hardship were the norm. No wonder that murder, mutiny, starvation and shipwreck appear in the memoirs gathered here. Domville-Fife surely did future generations a great service by piecing together this reality. First published in 1938, these memoirs are now available again in this superbly presented new edition with a new selection of stunning photographs and a fascinating introduction on life at sea in the dying world of sail. A wonderful read for all enthusiasts and historians of the merchant service in the days of sail.
