Book Description
Reprint of the original from 1780. Falconer ́s marine dictionary is written by an experienced seaman, who worked not only for the Royal navy but also in merchant ships.
Author : William Falconer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3864442761
Reprint of the original from 1780. Falconer ́s marine dictionary is written by an experienced seaman, who worked not only for the Royal navy but also in merchant ships.
Author : William Falconer
Publisher : Newton Abbot [England] : David & Charles
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1780
Category : French language
ISBN : 9780715347553
Author : William Falconer
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 1970
Category : French language
ISBN :
Author : William Falconer
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1970
Category : French language
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Defoe Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684480833
Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : James Pritchard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0773565531
Pritchard describes the domestic and international political circumstances in France that gave rise to the expedition, outlining strategy and politics in the context of colonial defence and continental ambition. He reconstructs the events that contributed to the failure of the expedition - human and institutional weakness, weather, spoiled provisions, disease, and the death of the commanding admiral. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the eighteenth century.
Author : Robert Faulder
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1782
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Philip Otterness
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801473449
Becoming German tells the story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America, the Palatine migration of 1709, tracking their journey from Germany to London to New York City and into the frontier areas of New York.
Author : Stephanie E. Smallwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674030680
Stephanie Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Her story in animated by deep research and gives us a startingly graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves.
Author : Ian Mclaughlan
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1848321872
This is the first study in depth of the Royal Navy's vital, but largely ignored small craft. In the age of sail they were built in huge numbers and in far greater variety than the more regulated major warships, so they present a particular challenge to any historian attempting a coherent design history. However, for the first time this book charts the development of the ancillary types, variously described in the 17th century as sloops, ketches, brigantines, advice boats and even yachts, as they coalesce into the single 18th-century category of Sloop of War. In this era they were generally two-masted, although they set a bewildering variety of sail plans from them. The author traces their origins to open boats, like those carried by Basque whalers, shows how developments in Europe influenced English craft, and homes in on the relationship between rigs, hull-form and the duties they were designed to undertake. ??Visual documentation is scanty, but this book draws together a unique collection of rare and unseen images, coupled with the author's own reconstructions in line drawings and watercolour sketches to provide the most convincing depictions of the appearance of these vessels. By tackling some of the most obscure questions about the early history of small-boat rigs, the book adds a dimension that will be of interest to historians of coastal sail and practical yachtsman, as well as warship enthusiasts.