Author: BullgatorPublisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468906682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Sea Sick or Soul Sick
Author: BullgatorPublisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468906682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Sea-sickness
Author: George Miller BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion sickness
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Taking it Like a Man
Author: Adrian CaesarPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719038341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Sea-Sickness: Its Symptoms, Nature and Treatment
Author: George M. BeardPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368863940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Observations on Sea-sickness, and on Some of the Means of Preventing it
Author: James AldersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
An Essay on Sea-sickness Explaining Its Real Nature, and Giving Practical Advice for Its Prevention and Treatment
Author: Colomanus de Rochlitz (M.D. and Ch.D. (Vienna).)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Sea-sickness: its cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment
Author: Michel NelkenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion sickness
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Sea-Sickness and how to Prevent it
Author: John ChapmanA Practical treatise on sea-sickness
Author: George Miller BeardOff the Deep End
Author: Nic ComptonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472941101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds – and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness.