Tall Ships

Author: George Quasha
Publisher: Gary Hill's Projective Install
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
You enter a long, dark corridor. Indistinct luminous shapes seem to move in place on the walls. Then a human figure rises, walks towards you, stands and gazes at you, becomes almost intimate with you before turning back whence it came. In this award-winning interactive installation created by video projection, world-renowned artist Gary Hill presents an underworld-like journey from which each visitor returns to daylight somehow transformed. The second book in an ongoing series of the Quasha & Stein dialogue on Gary Hill leads you on an initiatory journey that parallels the experience of the installation itself. The book is beautifully illustrated in duotone to give a living sense of the actual installation as it appeared in the Whitney Museum (New York) and many other museums throughout the US and Europe.

In the Days of the Tall Ships

Author: R. A. Fletcher
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473383455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Originally published in 1930, this is a wonderfully detailed look at the history of the Sailing Ship in the nineteenth century. Packed with photos and anecdotes, every major ship and Captain of the day is examined in depth. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include : Types of Ships The East Indiamen American Superiority and Atlantic Packets Navigation Laws, Utility Ships Opium and Tea Clippers Rushes To Californian and Australian Gold Fields, Some Fast Passages Wool, Wheat and Emigrant Ships Roaring Forties, Icebergs, Slow and Fast Passages, Etc Disasters, Rescues, Etc Life On A Sailing Ship

Fair Wind and Plenty of It

Author: Rigel Crockett
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781594861604
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 852

Book Description
A true-life, modern-day tale of high seas adventure follows the travels of a three-masted tall ship that left Nova Scotia in 1997 for a trip around the world, while the crew found themselves on personal journeys of their own. 30,000 first printing.

The Last of the Cape Horners

Author: Spencer Apollonio
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences

Tall Ships on Puget Sound

Author: Chuck Fowler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738548142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Tall sailing ships came to the Pacific Northwest beginning in the mid-1700s. Met by native Salish people, the ships brought Spanish, British, Russian, and American explorers, as well as settlers and entrepreneurs to the Puget Sound region. Over the next two centuries, during boom and bust periods, these majestic vessels continued to ply the waters of Puget Sound. Today the proud tall ships operate in a training and education rather than commercial context.

All at Sea

Author: Dominick Jones
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786475803
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations--there were six children. Dominick bought the successor, a Baltic Trader, and then found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between the first days of the barge and the last day of the Baltic. From knowing virtually nothing about sailing ships, the author traces getting to grips with the problems of making sails on board, skipping between sandbanks, dragging anchor, losing a mast, crossing the Atlantic, fixing self-steering, avoiding hurricanes, hauling out for repairs, and his major preoccupation: failing to sink. For 13 years, the author had no other home, and for half that period never spent a night ashore.

Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days

Author: John D. Whidden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description

Sailing to the Far Horizon

Author: Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299201937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.

Royce's Sailing Illustrated

Author: Patrick M. Royce
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9780911284072
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description

American Sailing Ships Coloring Book

Author: Peter F. Copeland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486253886
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Forty-five magnificent ready-to-color illustrations depict USS Constitution, sloops, whalers, frigates, clippers, more. Informative captions.