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A Notebook of Nautical Expressions
Author : Edward Lodi
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Figures of speech
ISBN : 9780972138994
A Notebook of Nautical Expressions
Author : John Guare
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN :
Typescript, dated March 14, 2019. Typescript heavily marked pencil by videographer. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on May 3, 2019, when videorecording the Lincoln Center Theater stage production in the Mitz E.Newhouse Theater, 150 West 65th Street, New York, N.Y. The play opened March 18, 2019, directed by Jerry Zaks.
Author : Leslie West
Publisher : SAF Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 9780946719624
A raucous pictorial documentary of high life stories of a time when rockers really rocked!
Author : Louise Taylor
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780692719459
True to an impulsive nature, a forty-six year old woman uproots her life and relocates to a seemingly idyllic coastal town in Maine. The lack of distraction and the veiled power of isolation pry her open to memories of her 7' 2" tall uncle and the difficulty she had navigating her life. Spliced with adventure, beauty, intrusive fears andSpliced with adventure, beauty, intrusive fears and perseverance, Nantucket Sleighride is above all a memoir of self-awareness and the will to change.
Author : Jordan Sonnenblick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545231892
Just when you thought you had it all figured out . . . "Alex Peter Gregory, you are a moron!" Laurie slammed her palms down on my desk and stomped her foot. I get a lot of that.One car crash.One measly little car crash. And suddenly, I'm some kind of convicted felon.My parents are getting divorced, my dad is shacking up with my third-grade teacher, I might be in love with a girl who could kill me with one finger, and now I'm sentenced to babysit some insane old guy.What else could possibly go wrong?This is the story of Alex Gregory, his guitar, his best gal pal Laurie, and the friendship of a lifetime that he never would have expected.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393066665
A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Author : Graham Faiella
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823945054
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Herman Melville's novel, "Moby Dick," which was published in the 1850s and based on the author's own experience at sea.
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141001821
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history. In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea, recently adapted into a major feature film starring Chris Hemsworth, is a book for the ages.
Author : Ted Bell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780312380687
Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their own game, and traveling through time.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1981-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520043541
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library. This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased.