Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Rudder Marine Directory
Author: Vinland
Author: George Mackay BrownPublisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848549407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his life, the one to Vinland.
Marine Review and Marine Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Includes section "Book Reviews".
Steamship and Other Power Vessels
Author: Colonising Egypt
Author: Timothy MitchellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James SpruntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Boat Crew Handbook - Rescue and Survival Procedures (BCH16114.2 - December 2017)
Author: United States Coast GuardPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781678196561
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
1. PURPOSE. This Handbook provides guidance on how to survive in maritime environments and situations. Major topics within this handbook are survivability factors, survival equipment and pyrotechnics, and egress and life rafts. 2. DIRECTIVES AFFECTED. The Boat Crew Seamanship Handbook, COMDTINST M16114.5C, is canceled. 3. DISCUSSION. This Handbook provides guidance on how to survive in maritime environments and situations. 4. MAJOR CHANGES. First issue. 5. DISCLAIMER. This guidance is not a substitute for applicable legal requirements, nor is it itself a rule. It is intended to provide operational guidance for Coast Guard personnel and is not intended to nor does it impose legally-binding requirements on any party outside the Coast Guard. 6. IMPACT ASSESSMENT. No impact assessment warranted.
Toponymy on the Periphery
Author: Julien CooperPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
"In Toponymy on the Periphery, Julien Charles Cooper conducts a study of the rich geographies preserved in Egyptian texts relating to the desert regions east of Egypt. These regions, filled with mines, quarries, nomadic camps, and harbours are often considered as an unimportant hinterland of the Egyptian state, but this work reveals the wide explorations and awareness Egyptians had of the Red Sea and its adjacent deserts, from the Sinai in the north to Punt in the south. The book attempts to locate many of the placenames present in Egyptian texts and analyse their etymology in light of Egyptian linguistics and the various foreign languages spoken in the adjacent deserts and distant shores of the Red Sea"--