Author: Charles Jacobs Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Cruising in the Last War
Author: Charles Jacobs Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Last Cruise
Author: Kate Christensen
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307951111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage—a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back—before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones—or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307951111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage—a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back—before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones—or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.
The Last Cruise of the Emden
Author: Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781585743827
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The true story of the most extraordinary and little-known escapades of a German light cruiser called into the thick of battle during World War I.
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781585743827
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The true story of the most extraordinary and little-known escapades of a German light cruiser called into the thick of battle during World War I.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316090522
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316090522
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
A Cruising Voyage Round the World
Author: Woodes Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Port Out, Starboard Home
Author: Michael Quinion
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet and the use of email has increased the circulation of (usually) false tales about the evolution of language. In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word 'posh' deriving from 'port out, starboard home' - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases. Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet and the use of email has increased the circulation of (usually) false tales about the evolution of language. In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word 'posh' deriving from 'port out, starboard home' - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases. Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.
A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench
Author: Charles Petersdorff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench
Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
The Naval Chronicle
Author: James Stanier Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men.