The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Ken McGoogan
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1443400173
Published to great reviews in Canada, the US and the UK, Ancient Mariner tells the riveting story of how Samuel Hearne—a sailor at 12, a northern explorer at 24, an admirer of Native peoples—became the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America. Yet, as Ken McGoogan reveals, Samuel Hearne’s place in the history books has been a subject hotly disputed over the past two centuries. This fascinating saga, a skillful blend of literary detective work and finely imagined narrative, delights and surprises as it restores Hearne’s rightful place in history.
Author : John Searles
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062199447
"A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you’ll never see coming. You won’t soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me Every marriage has its secrets…. Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis’s death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell…. A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty. Bored by her spouse and fired from her job when a questionable photo from her youth surfaces on social media, her only source of joy is an on-line affair with her very first love, a man she’s not seen in nearly thirty years, Teddy Cornwell… While in New York City, Jeremy, a failed and bitter writer, accepts an assignment to review a new restaurant in Providence. Years ago, Providence was the site of his first great love and first great heartbreak—and maybe, just maybe, he’ll look her up when he’s back in town… Part page-turning thriller, part homage to film noir, and dazzling in its insight into the often desperate desires of the human heart, Her Last Affair is a tense and atmospheric novel of love lost and found again.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2024-04-26
Category :
ISBN : 9180948650
George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
Author : Paul Mariner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2021-11-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781914197284
Author : Robert A. Geake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1625847041
For over three centuries, New Englanders have set sail in search of fortune and adventure--yet death lurked on every voyage in the form of storms, privateers, disease and human error. In hope of being spared by the sea, superstitious mariners practiced cautionary rituals. During the winter of 1779, the crew aboard the "Family Trader" offered up gin to appease the squalling storms of Neptune. In the 1800s, after nearly fifty shipwrecks on Georges Bank between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Nova Scotia, a wizard paced the coast of Marblehead, shouting orders out to sea to guide passing ships to safety. As early as 1705, courageous settlers erected watch houses and lighted beacons at Beavertail Point outside Jamestown, Rhode Island, to aid mariners caught in the swells of Narragansett Bay. Join Robert A. Geake as he explores the forgotten traditions among New England mariners and their lives on land and sea.
Author : J. J. Moore
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1801
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Peter H. Spectre
Publisher : Seafarer Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : 9780954706210
The period from the late eighteenth century to the first part of the nineteenth century was characterised by change: rapid industrial change, the agricultural revolution, political, economic and social reform. Yet there was also continuity, which led to tensions between improvement and resistance, modernity and tradition, rich and poor. Revolution, Radicalism and Reform provides a foundation for the study of the political, economic and social developments of the period. Topics covered include: Pitt and Liverpool, the French wars, the age of Peel, economy and industrialisation, poverty and Chartism. Revolution, Radicalism and Reform is part of the Cambridge Perspectives in History series. The book matches the requirements of the OCR examination specifications. It is suitable for all Advanced Subsidiary (AS) students, as well as students and undergraduates needing an introduction to the period. The book also contains a document study section on the condition of England at that time.
Author : Nicholas Monsarrat
Publisher : London : Cassell
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Naval history
ISBN :
In the bitter days that followed Trafalgar, Matthew Lawe watched as England mourned her greatest sailor son and then turned sadly away, a man damned to live forever. If damned he was then he'd take the trade of the damned, as master of a slaver bound out of Liverpool for the hellhole ports of Africa and the Caribbean paradise of rum and tobacco and trader's gold ...
Author : H. M. Elmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108045871
Instructions published in 1802 for navigation in Asia by a British naval commander who worked for the East India Company.