The Life Boat And Other Life Saving Inventions
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The Life Boat And Other Life Saving Inventions
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Author : Robert Bennet Forbes
language : en
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Release Date : 1880
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Author : Robert Bennet Forbes
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24
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Lifeboat
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Author : John R. Stilgoe
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003
Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.
Painting The Inhabited Landscape
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Author : Margaretta M. Lovell
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2023-03-27
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The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.
British Merchant Service Journal 1882 Vol Iv No I
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Author : British Merchant Service Journal 1882 Vol.IV
language : en
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Release Date : 1882
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Californian Illustrated Magazine
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language : en
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Release Date : 1893
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The Californian
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language : en
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Release Date : 1893
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Catalogue Of The Michigan State Library First Supplement For The Years 1883 84
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Author : Harriet Augusta Tenney
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-01-06
Catalogue Of The Michigan State Library First Supplement For The Years 1883 84 written by Harriet Augusta Tenney and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-06 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue Of The Michigan State Library For The Years 1881 2
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Author : Michigan State Library
language : en
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Release Date : 1881
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Catalogue
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Author : Michigan State Library
language : en
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Release Date : 1883
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