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Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea; Or, Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities and Providential Deliverances which Have Resulted from Maritime Enterprise ...
Author: Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, Or, Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities, and Providential Deliveries from Fire and Famine, on the Ocean
Author: Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, Or, Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities and Providential Deliverances from Fire and Famine, on the Ocean ..
Author: Sir John Graham DalyellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lifesaving
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
To Swear like a Sailor
Author: Paul A. GiljePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521762359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, Or Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities, and Providential Deliverances From Fire and Famine, on the Ocean (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles EllmsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333156213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Excerpt from Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, or Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities, and Providential Deliverances From Fire and Famine, on the Ocean Then thou art glorious when the tem est howls, Like a roused tigress spri in to the ht; And the black s y grows b anger it scowls Upon the night, When thunder roars, and the red lightning leaps Over the foaming deeps. 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.
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.
The Fortress of American Solitude
Author: Shawn ThomsonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838642179
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
For individuals who are interested in how Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives of shipwrecks and castaways influenced antebellum American Culture, Shawn Thomson's The Fortress of American Solitude is useful. More specifically, for Melville scholars, the second, third, and fourth chapters provide some interesting insight into possible readings for how Defoe's novel-and the castaway genre in general-may have influenced Melville's call to sea and the penning of some of his most interesting characters.
Inventing Disaster
Author: Cynthia A. KiernerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469652528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolutions in science, information, and emotion that were part of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and America. Beginning with the collapse of the early seventeenth-century Jamestown colony, ending with the deadly Johnstown flood of 1889, and highlighting fires, epidemics, earthquakes, and exploding steamboats along the way, Cynthia A. Kierner tells horrific stories of culturally significant calamities and their victims and charts efforts to explain, prevent, and relieve disaster-related losses. Although how we interpret and respond to disasters has changed in some ways since the nineteenth century, Kierner demonstrates that, for better or worse, the intellectual, economic, and political environments of earlier eras forged our own twenty-first-century approach to disaster, shaping the stories we tell, the precautions we ponder, and the remedies we prescribe for disaster-ravaged communities.
Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth
Author: Michael TitlestadPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030870413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck—the destruction of form and the advent of disorder—could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but also an abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation.
Catalogue
Author: C.F. Libbie & CoPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description