Author: C. HockingPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam, Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War Lost in Action 1824-1962
Author: C. HockingDictionary of disasters at sea during the age of steam
Author: Charles HockingDictionary Of Disasters at Sea During the Age Of Steam,vol.1,a-L
Author: Charles HockingDictionary Of Disasters at Sea During the Age Of Steam,vol.2,m-Z
Author: Charles HockingDictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam
Author: Charles HockingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collisions at sea
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
At Sea with the Scientifics
Author: Joseph MatkinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824814243
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
When HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth in 1872, a young assistant ship's steward, Joseph Matkin, was among the crew. Throughout the three-and-a-half-year voyage, Matkin maintained a journal from which he composed the many letters he sent home to his family in England. In his letters he commented on oceanographic operations, reported on shipboard events of special concern to the crew, and discussed at length the history, geography, and peoples of the many exotic and remote ports at which the ship called on its famous circumnavigation of the globe. The Challenger expedition established the foundations of oceanography and is second only to Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle for its contributions to nineteenth-century science. The massive quantity of specimens and information acquired was written up in the fity-volume series of Challenger Reports, and personal accounts were published by officers and scientists. No ocean voyage had ever been so well documented. Yet no account of the seaman's life "below decks" was known to exist until the early 1980s, when two substantial collections of Matkin's letters surfaced. The letters are unique in their perspective and fascinating for their depth and literacy. Matkin, the son of a printer, was well aware of the significance of the voyage and strove to present a learned account in a proper style. His letters convey a wealth of detail about shipboard logistics, the crew's attitudes toward scientific operations, and officer-scientist-crew relations. Unwittingly, Matkin also illuminates himself and the middle-class society of which he was a part. Matkin's letters, published here for the first time, bring freshness and immediacy to this great Victorian scientific enterprise. Philip F. Rehbock has edited and annotated the letters, providing a particularly readable work of travel literature for anyone interested in oceanography, voyaging, maritime social history, and naval affairs.
Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During
Author: Charles HockingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781843423812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Outrageous Seas
Author: Rainer K. BaehrePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773574190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland. Travellers from many walks of life - explorers and missionaries, traders, fishers and mariners, Native Peoples, aristocrats and immigrants - have left rare and fascinating first-hand accounts of such disasters. Their narratives span four centuries and touch many historical sub-themes such as the appeal of religion in times of crisis, gender roles, and the ocean-as-workplace. Apart from its obvious scholarly appeal, this collection evokes psychic responses to calamity and brushes with death, perhaps the most universal experience of all.
Shaw
Author: Fred D. CrawfordPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271014227
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is the annual edition of new studies of Shaw's life, influence and work.
Out of the Depths
Author: Alan G. JamiesonPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789146208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across four thousand years, examining their historical context and significance, showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, and shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not only informs readers of the technological developments over the last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks possible, but he also covers shipwrecks in culture and maritime archaeology, their appeal to treasure hunters, and their environmental impacts. Although shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s, foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental disasters, and in 2021, the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant container ship Ever Given had a serious effect on global trade.