Eight Bells And Top Masts

Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571296912
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Bells and Top Masts written by Christopher Lee and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 1950s, twilight years of the British Empire, saw the end of the era of the 'tramp steamer' - coal-burning merchant ships that 'tramped' from port to port in the days before bulk carriers, hunting for any cargo that needed hauling to any place. In this marvelous memoir Christopher Lee offers the diaries of a 'Lad' much like himself who, at the age of 17, took his first job aboard the tramp ship Empire Heywood. Over two years this Lad would get to travel through the Suez canal, into the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific - so acquiring a panoramic view of the fading empire - before returning home to England as a man. The diaries give a splendid account of all the dramas of life aboard ship, with an eccentric cast of characters and a wealth of lively seafaring language. A third-person narrative from the author provides invaluable historical context.

Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708948149
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Bells & Top Masts written by Christopher Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, an old tramp ship set sail from Amsterdam for the Far East. For nearly two years, she would tramp from port to port, never quite knowing where the next cargo might be or where it would be taken. Grubbing for trade, she sailed a complete circumnavigation of the globe. Aboard her was a young lad from the Kent marshes. He simply wanted to go to sea. Faithfully, in old school notebooks, the lad recorded what he saw, felt and did; moments of magic and moments of fear. Here is the often moving and often hilarious diary of that epic voyage.

Author : Kenneth Grahame
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 8577774910
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Book of Best Short Stories written by Kenneth Grahame and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. The theme of this edition is: Fantasy For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Edgar Rice Burroughs: - Tarzan's First Love - A Jungle Joke - Tarzan Rescues the Moon - John Carter and the Giant Of Mars - The Ancient Dead - Beyond Thirty - Skeleton Men of JupiterJohn Kendrick Bangs: - The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall - The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop - A Midnight Visitor - The Speck On The Lens - A Quicksilver Cassandra - The Ghost Club - A Psychical PrankOscar Wilde: - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - The Sphinx without a Secret - A Model Millionaire - The Happy Prince - The Fisherman and his Soul - The Nightingale and the Rose - The Young KingLord Dunsany: - Chu-Bu and Sheemish - The Hoard of the Gibbelins - The Quest of the Queen's Tears - How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never - The Wonderful Window - The Bride Of The Man Horse - The House Of The SphinxKenneth Grahame: - The Twenty-First of October - Dies Irae - Mutabile Semper - The Magic Ring - Its Walls Were as of Jasper - A Saga of the Seas - The Reluctant Dragon

Author : H. and E. Heron
Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3968583116
Total Pages : 5269 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3 written by H. and E. Heron and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 5269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Frank Richard Stockton - John Kendrick Bangs - Kenneth Grahame - Julian Hawthorne - A. E. W. Mason - Richard Middleton - Pierre Louÿs - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole - Ethel Richardson - Gertrude Stein - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Mór Jókai - Andy Adams - Bertha Sinclair - Fitz James O'Brien - Eleanor H. Porter - Valery Bryusov - John Ulrich Giesy - Otis Adelbert Kline - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Frank Lucius Packard - Barry Pain - Gertrude Bennett - Francis Marion Crawford - William Pett Ridge - Gilbert Parker - Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Elizabeth Garver Jordan - Richard Austin Freeman - Alice Duer Miller - Leonard Merrick - Anthony Hope - Ethel Watts Mumford - Anne O'Hagan Shinn - B. M. Bower

Author : Kenneth Grahame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Days written by Kenneth Grahame and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of five children growing up in rural England at the turn of the century.

Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.JB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Henry Dana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Basil Lubbock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0G/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Round the Horn Before the Mast written by Basil Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375757945
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book."