Author: Edward NoblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Outposts of the Fleet
Author: Edward NoblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Outposts of the Fleet
Author: Edward NoblePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364775868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Excerpt from Outposts of the Fleet: Stories of the Merchant, Service in War and Peace How is this man recognized P He is not recognized at all. He is a sailor. The Church knows nothing of him except that annually it dispenses tracts, printed in block letters, to him and wonders at his stolid indifference. The State passes him by he is without repre sentation; practically cut of? From voting he cannot make himself heard. Thus the greatest race of sailor-men the world has ever seen is treated as a negligible quantity by the two great upholders of national dignity. 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.
Outposts of the Fleet, by Edward Noble
Author: Edward NobleOutposts of the Fleet; Stories of the Merchant Service in War and Peace
Author: Edward NoblePublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230358802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... homeward with grain I i the sunrise squall "A man who would go to sea for pleasure, should go to hell for pastime."--Old Saying. Dawn on the confines of the South Pacific, and a sea marching with brazen crests to thrash the torn edges of the island with the inappropriate name--Tierra del Fuego. Dawn. The sky aflame, slashed with coppery wisps, a "dun bank of clouds grouped upon an horizon glowing like a brazier, and two ships under a heavy pressure of canvas drawing foam-tracks towards the dim cluster of rocks perched eerily at the end of the world which they must pass. Men call them the islands of Diego Ramirez, in memory of the adventurous navigator who discovered them; but they stand to the south of Tierra del Fuego, and are cold, bleak mountain peaks from which the softer terrain has been washed by the greybeards of Cape Horn. A sou'-west gale roared in the rigging of these two ships. Seas leaped upon them, sweeping their decks, hammering at them, even as they leaped upon the island with its granite outposts; but the ships moved onward, carrying grain for the British nation, as was their destiny. On the bow and under the stern of each was a name printed in white lettering--Manitou on this, Jugg rnau.t on that. Sometimes the legend appeared through the driving-spume, sometimes the spume smothered it, and it seemed, that the ships had melted into the giant rollers which battered them. Grey air, grey sea, grey sky, flecked and whipped with coppery ribbons of cloud, and out there the still pinnacles of Diego Ramirez, foam-clad, cold, to mock them. It was a point these two must pass before the driving could be eased. They came together at dawn. Two hours ago neither had been conscious of the other's presence; now men stood on deck and...
Outposts of the Fleet
Author: Edward NoblePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358961663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Outposts of the Fleet
Author: Edward NoblePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295318988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Outposts of the Fleet, Stories of the Merchant Service in War Peace
Author: Outposts
Author: Simon WinchesterPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141011890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
in 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory. His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling and often funny reading and tell a story most of us had thought was over: a tale of the last outposts in Britain's imperial career and of those who keep the flag flying. With a new introduction and additional material in many of the chapters, this revised edition tells us what happened to these extraordinary places while the author's been away.
Imperial Outposts from a Strategical and Commercial Aspect
Author: Arthur Mordaunt MurrayPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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