The Ordinary Seaman
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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 : Joseph P. Mallalieu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Very Ordinary Seaman written by Joseph P. Mallalieu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
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
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Very Ordinary Seaman written by Joseph Percival William Mallalieu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Ordinary Seaman
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Author : John Gordon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Ordinary Seaman written by John Gordon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Authors, English categories.
Very Ordinary Seaman
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Author : J. P. W. MALLALIEU
language : en
Publisher:
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.
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
Publisher:
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.
Cameron Ordinary Seaman
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Author : Philip McCutchan
language : en
Publisher: Lawbook Company
Release Date : 1980-12
Cameron Ordinary Seaman written by Philip McCutchan and has been published by Lawbook Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Sweatshops At Sea
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Author : Leon Fink
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2011
Sweatshops At Sea written by Leon Fink and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
"Leon Fink, one of the world's best labor historians, has gone to sea and returned with a powerful yarn about the seafaring workers who built the global economy. Vividly told the breathtaking in scope, Sweatshops at Sea will be remembered as one of the most important histories of our time." Marcus Rediker, author The Slave Ship: A Human History. "Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."---Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara.