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Very Ordinary Seaman
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Author : Joseph Percival W. Mallalieu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Very Ordinary Seaman written by Joseph Percival W. Mallalieu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
Very Ordinary Seaman
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Author : Joseph Percival William Mallalieu
language : en
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Release Date : 1956
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The Ordinary Seaman
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Author : Francisco Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Ordinary Seaman written by Francisco Goldman and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
In this acclaimed novel, the Pulitzer Prize–finalist explores the perils, passions, and adventures of a young Nicaraguan immigrant trapped in Brooklyn. Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Publishers Weekly In the late 1980s, teenage Sandinista soldier and avowed communist Esteban Gaitán leaves Nicaragua to begin a new life in America. He soon arrives on a desolate Brooklyn pier with fourteen other men to form the crew of the ship Urus. Elias and Mark, the owners of the Urus, hold the men captive, forcing them to work in a vain attempt to make the rotting vessel seaworthy. Without the means to return home, Esteban remains a virtual prisoner, haunted by the loss of the woman he loved during the war. Eventually learning how to sneak off the ship, he makes nocturnal forays into Brooklyn, where he meets a Mexican immigrant named Joaquina, and begins to plot his permanent escape. Centering his novel around Esteban, but also telling the stories of his fellow landlocked sailors, Francisco Goldman proves once again that he is “a major talent of great style and soul” (The Miami Herald). “Often very funny . . . Here, a corner of Brooklyn becomes the exotic and foreign experience, and through Esteban’s eyes it is as mysterious and alluring as Tangiers.” —The Dallas Morning News
Very Ordinary Seaman
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Author : J. P. W. MALLALIEU
language : en
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Release Date : 2018-10-05
Very Ordinary Seaman written by J. P. W. MALLALIEU and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-05 with categories.
Ordinary Seaman
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Author : John Gordon
language : en
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Release Date : 1993
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Very Ordinary Seaman
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Author : Joseph P. Mallalieu
language : en
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Release Date : 1959
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Hms Bermuda Days
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Author : Peter Broadbent
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2013-10-02
Hms Bermuda Days written by Peter Broadbent and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1961 the Royal Navy came up with a brilliant idea: why not take all its rogues, thugs and malcontents and place them on board its flagship, HMS Bermuda, where hard work and continuous exercising would keep them out of trouble? Joining this colourful crew was sixteen-year-old Peter Broadbent, fresh out of his year's training at HMS Ganges, and drafted to ‘Bermadoo' to make up the ship’s quota of Junior Seamen. Initially he lived a cocooned existence in the Juniors’ mess, with a community of cockroaches as his closest companions, but his life changed dramatically the day he transferred to the notorious For’d Seamen’s Mess. There, he grew up. In the course of his 34,000 nautical miles with Bermuda, he learned how to ammunition the ship, avoid Pompey Lil, sing the Oggie song, survive a storm, throw a perfect heaving line and count himself proud to be a ‘sharp-end seaman’. On his eighteenth birthday, the entire population of Hamilton, Bermuda, along with a uniformed band and full ceremonial, enthusiastically welcomed Peter and his ship; in Newcastle-upon-Tyne he was given the job of preventing women wearing skirts from descending a long open-backed ladder; in Stockholm he had a memorable dalliance with a local girl called Gunnel, and in Amsterdam a professional businesswoman at work in Canal Street was so impressed with his performance that, as he took his leave, she shook his hand warmly and gave him some of her business cards.
The Seaman S Manual
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Author : Richard Henry Dana
language : en
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Release Date : 1871
The Seaman S Manual written by Richard Henry Dana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Naval art and science categories.
Sons Of The Waves
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Author : Stephen Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Sons Of The Waves written by Stephen Taylor and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with History categories.
A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain’s trade, exploration, and warfare British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation’s destiny in their calloused hands.
Refuge In The Black Deck
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Author : Nicola Peffers
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-02-22
Refuge In The Black Deck written by Nicola Peffers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-22 with Canada categories.
Ordinary Seaman, Nicola Peffers exposes ongoing harassment from her male colleagues, despite Canadian Forces' "zero-tolerance policy" and chronicles PTSD survival experience.When Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers boarded the HMCS Winnipeg in 2009, she was embarking on her first deployment with the Canadian Navy. At twenty-six years old, one of the few women on the boat, and of the top students in her training class, Nicola began her career with a sense of optimism and hope towards seeing the world and serving her country. Rather than finding the teamwork and belonging she had hoped for, Nicola endured constant sexualization by the men she worked with. Along with the rigors of an intense military training process, she also faced sexual harassment and mistreatment from her superiors, meanwhile bound by rigid hierarchies and the physical distance between home and life at sea. Socially isolated, Nicola's only refuge, at times, was hiding in the black deck, a dark and cramped area of the ship that no one visits unless they absolutely have to. REFUGE IN THE BLACK DECK is about physical and emotional strength, the failures of the justice system in the face of sexual harassment, and the harmful effects of trauma that continue even after having left the site of the experience.