just a simple seaman

Author: Andrew Parks
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467013951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
Just a Simple Seaman is a heartwarming story, initially of being brought up and schooled in post-war England with anecdotes of family life and childhood mischief. The book continues by recounting Andrew’s life after he left home at the age of sixteen seeking adventure on the high seas as an apprenticed navigation officer in the British Merchant Navy at a time when the Red Ensign was flown with pride on vessels in ports all over the world. The book relates his observations and experiences while sailing on cargo liners for the following four years – until he met the love of his life at a school reunion. It is a book of warmth, humour, poignancy and occasional sadness.

Voyages of a Simple Sailor

Author: Roger D. Taylor
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0955803551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
This book is a distillation of over 50 years of sailing experience, describing small-boat voyaging from a unique and deeply considered perspective.

Brazil Red

Author: Jean-Christophe Rufin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
Rufin presents two conflicting views of man and nature as he tells the story of two orphaned children who are dragged off on a French colonizing expedition where they are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters.

Time

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Languages : en
Pages : 1792

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British Medical Journal

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1536

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The Sailor's Horn-book for the Law of Storms

Author: Henry Piddington
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Category : Cyclones
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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The Sailor's Horn-Book for the Law of Storms: Being a Practical Exposition of the Theory of the Law of Storms, and Its Uses to Mariners of All Classes in All Parts of the World, Shewn by Transparent Storm Cards and Useful Lessons. With Two Diagrams on Horn

Author: Henry Piddington
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Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Buoy in the Fog

Author: M. Wagner
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977263518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
A musical jazz riff triggers Jack Springer to venture out to sea in a heavy fog. He encounters a buoy with an ominous presence. The sight of it is unnerving yet comfortingly familiar. Moments later Jack is pushed into reliving a series of nightmarishly close encounters with death. It begins innocently enough with his adolescent preoccupation with girls and cars. And thus begins the quest to find his dream-girl. Jack recounts an adventuresome life, heralding how Stupidity, Bravery, Bravado and Dumb Luck over comes the forces of his Karma occasionally venturing in the wrong direction. Based on a true story.

The Seamen's Journal

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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories

Author: Desmond Fforde
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1909335231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
"Just the sort of book one likes to find on a yacht's bookshelf between watches." - Classic Boat Magazine Set sail on a voyage of discovery of great nautical stories. These stories range from the Napoleonic wars, via ships that traded under sail round Cape Horn, to what it was like to take charge of a ship in Convoy, serve in the force-ends of a submarine or fly a Corsair against the Japanese. If you have seen WW1 picture of a ship in dazzle camouflage, there is a description of how it came about, and the Dunkirk evacuation is movingly depicted. Lastly there is Uffa Fox's airbone lifeboat: a real masterpiece of design, and what a man!