Author: Albert Franklin BlaisdellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Heroic Deeds of American Sailors
Author: Albert Franklin BlaisdellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Heroic Deeds of American Sailors
Author: Albert Franklin BlaisdellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
John Paul Jones
Author: Evan ThomasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Pioneers of America
Author: Albert Franklin BlaisdellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pioneers
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Hero Tales of the American Soldier and Sailor as Told by the Heroes Themselves and Their Comrades
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
An anthology of personal narratives primarily concerning the Spanish-American War, but also containing pieces regarding the Civil War and other conflicts in American history.
Hero of the High Seas
Author: Michael L. CooperPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792255475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Illustrated by period artwork and photographs of historical artifacts, a biography of John Paul Jones describes how the Scots immigrant served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and led his men to victory over the world's greatest sea power.
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel BowditchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Teaching American History in the Middle Grades of the Elementary School
Author: Mary Gertrude KeltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Approved Library Books for Elementary Grades, Public Schools of Texas
Author: Texas. State Department of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description