Author: Ralph Harold DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Davis Family of Connecticut, New York, Brier Island and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1690-1997
Author: Ralph Harold DavisThe American Coast Pilot
Author: Edmund March BluntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
New Piloting Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America from Labradore, Or New Britain, to the Entrance of the River Mississippi ...
Author: J.W. NoriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
H.O. Pub
Author: United States. Hydrographic OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Sailing Directions for the Coasts and Harbours of North America
Author: Michael BlachfordMaster & Madman
Author: Nicolas TracyPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 184832121X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Anthony Lockwoods story is at the heart of the Georgian Navy though the man himself has never taken centre stage in its history. His naval career described by himself as twenty five years incessant peregrination followed a somewhat erratic course but almost exactly spanned the period of the French wars and the War of 1812. Lockwood was commended for bravery in action against the French; was present at the Spithead Mutiny; shipwrecked and imprisoned in France; appointed master attendant of the naval yard at Bridgetown, Barbados, during the year the slave trade was abolished; and served as an hydrographer before beginning his three-year marine survey of Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. Against the odds he managed to finesse a treasury appointment as Surveyor General of New Brunswick and became the right hand man of the Governor, General Smyth. Deeply ingrained in his character, however, was a democratic determination that was out of step with the authoritarian character of the Navy and the aristocratic one of New Brunswick. His expectation of social justice verged on madness, and when he finally succumbed to lunacy it was in the defence of democracy. The turbulence of the times inspired Lockwood to stage a one-man coup detat which ended with him being jailed and shipped back to London to live out his days as a pensioner and mental patient. Truly a dramatic rise and a tragic fall.
A Man for All Oceans
Author: Stan GraysonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1684751349
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum's book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum's Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum's uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor's perspective to Slocum's solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau's Walden and shows that Slocum's simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today's emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum's world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.
Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1842
Author: VariousPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108053904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
The 1842 Nautical Magazine reports on the First Opium War with China and includes health advice for Europeans in Africa.
The Nautical Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description