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Author: Mary Matthews Bray Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ocean travel Languages : en Pages : 174
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"A diary kept during a long voyage in a fast-sailing clipper ship in the days before steel ocean liners when the United States was first on the list of maritime nations. The book reflects the customs and ideas of the people and vividly describes the countries as they then appeared"--Dust jacket.
Author: Mary Matthews Bray Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ocean travel Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
"A diary kept during a long voyage in a fast-sailing clipper ship in the days before steel ocean liners when the United States was first on the list of maritime nations. The book reflects the customs and ideas of the people and vividly describes the countries as they then appeared"--Dust jacket.
Author: Mary Matthews Bray Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484173940 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 170
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Excerpt from A Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days On a chill gray afternoon in December, the good Ship, National Eagle, left the wharf in East Bos ton, bound for New Orleans. A group of relatives and 'friends, a few minutes before had filed down the gangway, and were still standing on the wharf, waving hats and hand kerchiefs', as the ship, her moorings loosened and cast off, began to move slowly and majestically away from the pier. On board of her, as she glided away, in the waning light of the short winter afternoon, were the Captain; three officers or mates, designated as first, second and third; a carpenter; a steward; a cook; a crew of twenty or more men, known as sailors before the mast; and four younger men, called boys to distinguish them from the men of th crew. There were also two passengers, my sister and myself - daughters of the Captain. 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.
Author: Glenn A. Knoblock Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786471123 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 377
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This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the Flying Cloud and Challenge discussed in detail, but they are also put in context with the times in which they operated. Their builders in East Coast states from Maine to Florida are discussed in detail, as are the men, and a woman in one instance, who commanded and manned these ships. The book documents the roles that owners and shipping agents played, what kinds of cargo the ships carried worldwide and the unusual trades in which they participated.
Author: Robert Foulke Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135366438 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.
Author: Andrew David Cliff Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199244731 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 800
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This book is a world geography of emerging diseases from antiquity to the present day. The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases. This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence.
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