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Down To The Sea In Ships
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Author : Horatio Clare
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Down To The Sea In Ships written by Horatio Clare and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Travel categories.
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable journeys. As the ships cross seas of history and incident, seafarers unfold the stories of their lives, and a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges. 'Tremendous' The Times
Down To The Sea In Ships
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Author : Irvin Anthony
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
Down To The Sea In Ships written by Irvin Anthony and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Arctic regions categories.
Down To The Sea In Ships
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Author : Horatio Clare
language : en
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release Date : 2014
Down To The Sea In Ships written by Horatio Clare and has been published by Chatto & Windus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Container ships categories.
For centuries, container ships have sailed and motored their way across the world's oceans and yet little thought is given to the men who, today, cross seas for a living. Their cargo is everything that is essential to the world on dry land, and the story of how the things we need get to where we need them is anything but simple. Teams of men take on physically taxing tasks, face battering waves, endure administrative deadlocks, and brave pirate-infested waters (cutlasses have been replaced with machine-guns). And all around the sea remains an unknowable, unassailable force, its vastness instantly dwarfing even the largest container vessel. Horatio Clare climbed aboard as writer-in-residence to a large shipping company u and was taken in by Captain and crew as a temporary seafarer. Together they experienced two unforgettable journeys: the first, from East to West (Felixstowe to Los Angeles, via Suez) was tanned with Pacific sun and enlivened by flying fish; the second northerly passage, from Antwerp to Montreal, was scented with diesel, sounded with creaks and lashed with heaving gales. In Clare's vibrant prose, natural forces clash with heavy industry, but above all it is the men utheir obsessions, their stories, their relationships u who bring this book to life. A beautiful and terrifying portrait of the ocean and its wildlife, a fascinating study of big business afloat, Down to the Sea in Ships is a startling study of men at work, when they are 'landlocked' on ship together for months on end, facing the wide expanse of the sea.
Deep Sea And Foreign Going
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Author : Rose George
language : en
Publisher: Portobello Books
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Deep Sea And Foreign Going written by Rose George and has been published by Portobello Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Travel categories.
There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this unique investigation, Rose George joins the crew of a container ship to chart the murky waters of international shipping, with its powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, and illegal floating factories, to reveal the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
Down To The Sea In Ships Dvd
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Down To The Sea In Ships Dvd written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Down To The Sea In Ships
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Author : Philemon Sturges
language : en
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
Down To The Sea In Ships written by Philemon Sturges and has been published by Putnam Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American poetry categories.
Poems describe a variety of watercraft, from birch bark canoes to cruise ships, and reveal their impact on the world.
Down To The Sea In Ships Classic Reprint
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Author : Sydney Glanville Fielding
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-21
Down To The Sea In Ships Classic Reprint written by Sydney Glanville Fielding and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from Down to the Sea in Ships Do you know what time it is? I'll never come out with you again. You know how scotty she'll be if we're not back before one. 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.
The Sea And Civilization
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Author : Lincoln Paine
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-02-06
The Sea And Civilization written by Lincoln Paine and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with History categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014 A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India, Southeast and East Asia who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish vibrant overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European overseas expansion. His narrative traces subsequent developments in commercial and naval shipping through the post-Cold War era. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be traced to the sea.
Shipboard Literary Cultures
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Author : Susann Liebich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-01
Shipboard Literary Cultures written by Susann Liebich and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.
Down To The Sea In Ships
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Down To The Sea In Ships written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.