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Twenty Years At Sea
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Author : Frederic Stanhope Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
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Twenty Years At Sea Or Leaves From My Old Log Books
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Author : Frederic Stanhope HILL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
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Twenty Years At Sea Or Leaves From My Old Log Books Classic Reprint
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Author : Frederic Stanhope Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-21
Twenty Years At Sea Or Leaves From My Old Log Books Classic Reprint written by Frederic Stanhope Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from Twenty Years at Sea, or Leaves From My Old Log-Books IN the old days, fifty years ago, when I first went to sea, it was the custom in fine weather, in most ships, after supper had been leisurely discussed and pipes lighted, for both watches to gather on the forecastle deck to listen to the yarns of some old tar, or to join in one of the many ballads with a rattling chorus, in which the exploits of Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, or some other dashing knight of the road were set forth in glowing terms and endless verses. 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.
Twenty Years At Sea Leaves From My Old Log Books
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Author : FREDERIC STANHOPE HILL
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 1893-01-01
Twenty Years At Sea Leaves From My Old Log Books written by FREDERIC STANHOPE HILL and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In the old days, fifty years ago, when I first went to sea, it was the custom in fine weather, in most ships, after supper had been leisurely discussed and pipes lighted, for both watches to gather on the forecastle deck to listen to the yarns of some old tar, or to join in one of the many ballads with a rattling chorus, in which the exploits of Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, or some other dashing knight of the road were set forth in glowing terms and endless verses. Many an evening, when a boy, I have coiled myself up on the deck, close to the windlass bitts, with my jacket rolled up under my head as a pillow, and have listened with eager interest to those tough yarns, while the good ship, with every inch of canvas, from courses to moonsails, drawing, gently rose and fell with rhythmic motion, as she ploughed her way through the long rolling swells of the broad Pacific. A hundred feet above our heads, the tapering point of the skysail mast swayed; in the heavens about us blazed the brilliant constellations of the southern hemisphere; beneath us the waves gently swished as the sharp forefoot clave them asunder, and the story-teller droned on with his tales of peril by storm and wreck, or, perchance, in a lighter vein, dwelt upon the charms of that lass in some far-away port who loved a sailor.In the old days, fifty years ago, when I first went to sea, it was the custom in fine weather, in most ships, after supper had been leisurely discussed and pipes lighted, for both watches to gather on the forecastle deck to listen to the yarns of some old tar, or to join in one of the many ballads with a rattling chorus, in which the exploits of Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, or some other dashing knight of the road were set forth in glowing terms and endless verses. Many an evening, when a boy, I have coiled myself up on the deck, close to the windlass bitts, with my jacket rolled up under my head as a pillow, and have listened with eager interest to those tough yarns, while the good ship, with every inch of canvas, from courses to moonsails, drawing, gently rose and fell with rhythmic motion, as she ploughed her way through the long rolling swells of the broad Pacific. A hundred feet above our heads, the tapering point of the skysail mast swayed; in the heavens about us blazed the brilliant constellations of the southern hemisphere; beneath us the waves gently swished as the sharp forefoot clave them asunder, and the story-teller droned on with his tales of peril by storm and wreck, or, perchance, in a lighter vein, dwelt upon the charms of that lass in some far-away port who loved a sailor.
Twenty Years At Sea Or Leaves From My Old Logbooks
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Author : Frederic Stanhope Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Twenty Years At Sea Or Leaves From My Old Logbooks written by Frederic Stanhope Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with United States categories.
Twenty Years At Sea Leaves From My Old Log Books
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Author : Frederic Stanhope Hill
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Twenty Years At Sea Leaves From My Old Log Books written by Frederic Stanhope Hill 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 2023-10-24 with Fiction categories.
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Twenty Years At Sea
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Author : Frederic Stanhope Hill
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-13
Twenty Years At Sea written by Frederic Stanhope Hill 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 2023-09-13 with Fiction categories.
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With Sails Whitening Every Sea
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Author : Brian Rouleau
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-06
With Sails Whitening Every Sea written by Brian Rouleau and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-06 with History categories.
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions—barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows—shaped how the United States was perceived overseas. Rouleau details both the mariners’ "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation’s reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world’s oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation’s principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America’s master narrative beyond the water’s edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world.
Lincoln S Trident
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Author : Robert M. Browning Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Lincoln S Trident written by Robert M. Browning Jr. and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lincoln's Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy's West Gulf Blockading Squadron's quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.
Civil War Scoundrels And The Texas Cotton Trade
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Author : Walter E. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Civil War Scoundrels And The Texas Cotton Trade written by Walter E. Wilson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with History categories.
During the Civil War, scoundrels from both the Union and Confederate sides were able to execute illicit, but ingenious, schemes to acquire Texas cotton. Texas was the only Confederate state that bordered a neutral country, it was never forcibly conquered, and its coast was impossible to effectively blockade. Using little known contemporary sources, this story reveals how charlatans exploited these conditions to run the blockade, import machinery and weapons, and defraud the state's most prominent political, military and civilian leaders in the process. Best known for his role in the romantic entanglements of his co-conspirator William Sprague, Harris Hoyt stands out due to his sharp intellect and fascinating character. Hoyt was able to draw most of Abraham Lincoln's inner circle into his web of deceit and even influenced the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. This is the first account to expose the depth and breadth of the many Texas cotton trading scams and the sheer audacity of the shadowy men who profited from them, but managed to escape the gallows.