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Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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: 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 which Have Resulted from Maritime Enterprise ...
Author: Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea
Author: David CressyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192863398
Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
The Poems of Lord Byron - Don Juan
Author: Jane StablerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040270557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Byron’s Don Juan is one of the greatest poems in the English language. Byron’s friends initially agreed that ‘it will be impossible to publish this’. Byron prevailed, however, and the first two cantos were issued anonymously after much editorial revision. Even in its revised form, Don Juan was perceived as a radical attack on establishment values; the poem has remained a beacon for freedom of speech and retains its power to shock. Since it was published in 1819–24, all printed editions of the poem have used the text prepared by Byron’s publishers, John Murray and John Hunt. This is the first new text of the poem to be printed in two hundred years. The Longman edition is based on a comprehensive line-by-line analysis of the manuscripts, so the text of the poem follows Byron’s own voice, pace and pauses, rather than the grammatical punctuation and more cautious word choice inserted by his nineteenth-century editors. The Longman Don Juan has been annotated afresh, allowing readers to see where Byron left open the choice of words or rhymes, and demonstrating the extraordinary breadth and depth of his literary allusions, topical and cultural references, and socially coded jokes. Textual annotation includes reception history, extensive bibliographies and a detailed chronology, situating Don Juan in the literary, scientific, dramatic, political, musical and social life of the early nineteenth century. A detailed index to the poem and annotation provides an unparalleled resource for students and scholars.
The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures: Consisting Of Original Communications, Specifications Of Patent Inventions, And Selections Of Useful Practical Papers From The Transactions Of The Philosophical Societies Of All Nations, &c. &c
Author: Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany
Author: Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 1
Author: Peter J KitsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
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