Last Voyages
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Without Trace
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Author : John Harris
language : en
Publisher: Canelo + ORM
Release Date : 2023-02-23
Without Trace written by John Harris and has been published by Canelo + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-23 with History categories.
‘...and if there had been only one survivor, there would have been no mystery in any of these cases...’ Bestselling author John Harris freshly investigates seven of the most gripping and intriguing voyages of the past 150 years. Bringing his unique skills as a novelist and sailor to reassess the fragmentary evidence, he aims to finally answer these enduring and terrifying mysteries. He takes us: Aboard Erebus and Terror on Sir John Franklin’s disastrous Arctic expedition, last seen parting from their escort... Aboard the Mary Celeste, crewed by a well-respected captain and an experienced crew, abandoned in the mid-Atlantic... Aboard the battleship Maine, blown sky-high in Havana harbour... Aboard the collier Cyclops, disappeared between Barbados and Virginia during the First World War... Aboard the Teignmouth Electron, winner-apparent of the round the world yacht race, sighted deserted and drifting... This is life at sea at its most epic and frightening.
Last Voyages
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Author : Nicholas Gray
language : en
Publisher: Fernhurst Books Limited
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Last Voyages written by Nicholas Gray and has been published by Fernhurst Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime's finest yachtsmen, this collection of eleven original, moving accounts is just as much a celebration of the good – tales of hope, achievement and courageous spirit – as it is an account of their tragic final voyages. Included are world-renowned racers, like Eric Tabarly and Rob James, highly experienced cruisers and adventurers, like Peter Tangvald and Bill Tilman, and the notoriously ill-prepared Donald Crowhurst, as well as other famous and some less well-known sailors. Starting with the sad loss of Frank Davison and Reliance in 1949, the book concludes with the amazing last voyage of Philip Walwyn in 2015 – crossing the Atlantic single-handed in his 12 Metre yacht Kate. All of the men and women described were friends with or known to the author, Nicholas Gray, who himself competed in several short-handed long distance races, where he met and raced against many of these fascinating characters. Peppered with photographs showcasing the sailors and their yachts, this is a refreshing look at those who have helped to shape this sport's history, honouring their lives and accomplishments before detailing their tragic last voyages.
The Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea
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Author : Charles Paul MacKie
language : en
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company
Release Date : 1892
The Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea written by Charles Paul MacKie and has been published by Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with America categories.
Without Trace
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Author : John Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Without Trace written by John Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Last Voyages Cavendish Hudson Ralegh
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Author : Thomas Cavendish
language : en
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1988
Last Voyages Cavendish Hudson Ralegh written by Thomas Cavendish and has been published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean era have served their turn over the centuries as stirring accounts of the daring of the empire-builders. In this collection of the contemporary accounts of three famous 'last voyages', these writings can be seen as a powerfuland special kind of literature, having kinship with the great fictional tragedies of the period. Thomas Cavendish attempted in 1591 to repeat his earlier triumphant circumnavigation of the globe, but could not get through the Magellan Straits and died at sea, probably by his own hand, on the voyage home. Henry Hudson, making yet another attempt to find the North-West Passage in 1610-11, wasset adrift in the ice by his own crew. Sir Walter Ralegh, released from the Tower, failed to find the Guiana gold in 1617-18 and came home to the executioner's axe. The men who wrote the accounts of these disastrous ventures were the participants themselves: the leaders, the mutineers, younggentlemen, even a poet and a mathematician. Apart from the poet, none were writing for a living, though some of them were writing for their lives, passionately justifying or exonerating themselves, challenging and contradicting each other. Brought together, their accounts form moving documents ofendeavour and defeat in difficult seas and hostile terrain. All the narratives, given in modern spelling, have been newly re-edited from the original manuscripts or printings, with ample introductions which correct the existing historical record on a number of points, and with full explanatory commentary.
The Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea
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Author : Charles Paul Mac Kie
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-03
The Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea written by Charles Paul Mac Kie and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-03 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Last Voyages of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea: As Related by Himself and His Companions As a measure of justice to our readers, we have in all cases made our own translation direct from the originals of all material used. We know that the speech of Columbus was strongly tinctured with Portuguese, and the effects of his long residence among that people are equally apparent in the extreme rudeness and compression of his written lan guage. This often lends vigor to his expressions, but some times obscures his meaning; hence more than usual care is needed in converting his phrases. Selections from his writ ings have been done into English by Major and Kettell but neither of these versions is easy of access to the general reader, and we do not assume to disparage the scholarship of either learned translator in saying that, for any serious purpose, their renderings are quite inadmissible. If any writer is worth quoting at all, he is worth quoting correctly, and harm enough has been already done the cause of honest history by drawing hasty conclusions from erroneously re ported premises. 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 Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea
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Author : Ruth Parr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03
The Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea written by Ruth Parr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03 with categories.
Last Voyages Of The Mayflower
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Author : Kenneth Allsop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Last Voyages Of The Mayflower written by Kenneth Allsop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with categories.
Last Voyages Of The Mayflower
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Author : Kenenth Allsop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Last Voyages Of The Mayflower written by Kenenth Allsop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with categories.
In the year 1620 a party of poor Englishmen--weavers, hatmakers, masons and carpenters--went with their families to America to find in the New World freedom to worship God in the way they wished. The vessel that carried these founders of the first New England settlement through 65 days of storm and sickness was called the Mayflower. This book tells the story of The Mayflower's voyages after 1620.
The Last Voyage
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Author : Hammond Innes
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1979
The Last Voyage written by Hammond Innes and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
On 12th July 1776, Captain James Cook sailed from Plymouth in the three-masted collier, Resolution, in search of the fabled North-West Passage. This is the story he might have told. The voyage swept him and his crew from the icy wasteland of the Arctic to the tropical waters of Hawaii. It was also a journey that was to change the life on His Majesty's ships forever.