Author: J. A. GuthriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ship physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Seeing the World Through a Porthole
Author: J. A. GuthriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ship physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Portholes to Life
Author: Gene DickPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426992491
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This compelling, exciting, and different historic novel tells of the harrowing ordeal of a civil war widow the authors Great-grandmother, a civil war widow and her hard, harrowing trip to Iowa with her children. Two love stories and the marriages of two sets of the authors grandparents with their covered wagons on the Oregon Trail to Oregon Territory. To the birth in a log cabin and early life of the author. On December 7th 1941, Japanese Navy in a sneak attack sank the U.S.S. Oklahoma on Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor. This attack sank the battleships U.S.S. Arizona, US.S. Oklahoma, U.S.S. Utah and most of the U.S. Navys ships in the Pacific Ocean, as well as the destruction of the airplanes at Hickam Field and North Island Hawaii December 7th, 1941, The author was trapped inside the ship as the Oklahoma was torpedoed, strafed, rolled over and sank. The novel ends with the Authors death defying, terrifying escape though a 21 inch Porthole four long hours after the ship was torpedoed, rolled over and sank into the black depths of Pearl Harbor. As President Franklin D Roosevelt said, A day that will live in infamy as the United States went to war against the Japanese Empire. Gene Dick is the real deal a decorated World War II warrior whose adventures, insights, and naval exploits make for a rousing good tale. Enjoy! Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Spies, The Last Spymaster, and others
Woman's View From a Porthole
Author: Sindi GiancoliPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578338804
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Woman's View from a Porthole is the true story of a woman's rise to Chief Steward on worldwide commercial fishing vessels, a feat seldom achieved by anyone, much less a woman. Author Sindi Giancoli spent thirty-five years as a Chief Steward for American Seafoods Company and other commercial fishing companies in Alaska and the Bering Sea. She survived high seas, gale-force winds, seasickness, illnesses, death of crewmates, stress, homesickness, bunking together, broken toilets, power outages, hauling fish, food fights, discrimination, sexism, and getting along with others despite wildly diverse backgrounds - all this while being tossed around on the high seas cooking. Through multiple trials, joys, sorrows, and struggles, she went from being a scared, timid young woman to becoming a woman of achievement, confidence, and strength in an industry that was, and to a certain extent still is, primarily male-dominated. She had to build a strong backbone to win the respect of her male counterparts while leading them. She succeeded in doing this and became part of what would be termed years later as "a very special generation of women" who claimed ownership of their work at sea. This story is a unique look into a world most people will never see. Women's View from a Porthole is a true account of the author's adventures and a riveting story of survival. Packed with full-color photographs of the author's time at sea, with a foreword from Sigurd Jonny "Sig" Hansen, captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern, that has been featured in the documentary television series "Deadliest Catch," this book is a page-turner.
Submerged Cultural Resources Study
Author: Daniel LenihanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers
Author: English Patents of Inventions, Specifications
Author: NASA Technical Translation
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Material Science and Environmental Engineering
Author: Ping ChenPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1315638533
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Material Science and Environmental Engineering presents novel and fundamental advances in the fields of material science and environmental engineering. Collecting the comprehensive and state-of-art in these fields, the contributions provide a broad overview of the latest research results, so that it will proof to be a valuable reference book to aca
American Negligence Reports, Current Series
Author: New York Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.