Author: Eric NewbyPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007597833
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1956.
Learning the Ropes
Author: Eric NewbyPublisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
With wit and nostalgia--and through radiant photographs that evoke a vanished maritime world--a master storyteller looks back on a youthful adventure that taught him the ways of the sea and ships. 160 photos.
Author: Alan VilliersSomething Wholesale
Author: Eric NewbyPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508220
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women's fashion.
Author: Eric Newby
Author: Eric Newby
Author: Eric NewbyThe Boundless Sea
Author: David AbulafiaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199934983
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1115
Book Description
"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--
The Breath of Angels
Author: John BeattiePublisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574090284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Even as a teenager, John Beattie felt drawn to the ocean, but it was 25 years before his dream of sailing the globe in his 35-foot yacht Warrior Queen could begin to come true. His voyage began in England & continued to the South American coast & into the depths of the rainforests via uncharted tributaries. The adventure reached a stirring climax during his return voyage from Venezuela. One day at dawn, hundreds of miles from land, he spotted a man dying of thirst aboard a drifting open boat, a man given one last slender chance to live. "A riveting, powerful, more-dramatic-than-fiction, true biographical story of life & death upon the open sea." The Midwest Book Review
Author: Eric Newby