Rowing After The White Whale

Author : James Adair
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905996
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rowing After the White Whale written by James Adair and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's it like to be on a small boat with no power but oars, and over 1,500 miles from the nearest land? Two friends decided to find out... Over a boozy Sunday lunch, flatmates James Adair and Ben Stenning made a promise to row across an ocean despite having no sailing or rowing experience whatsoever. This is an account of their 116 days at sea as they undertook the voyage of a lifetime. From eerie calms to their capsize in stormy seas, their determination and perseverance pushed them through the relentless dangers of rowing and sleeping under sun, moon, wind and stars for day upon day. Their tale is one of moonbows and meteor showers, passing whales and thieving fish, lurking sharks and giant squid ... and a terrifying fight for survival.

Author : David Dowling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299062
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the White Whale written by David Dowling and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-11-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There have been a lot of crazy books about Melville and Moby-Dickiut this isn't one of them. Dowling's overarching analogy, between Ishmael's and Melville's obsessions and the annual marathon group-reading of Moby-Dick in New Bedford, makes perfect sense and generates illuminating analyses of the novel and its cultural contexts. It also lets him open his book up into a passionate exploration of how great literature can still play a vital role in people's lives today"-Damion Searls, editor, Thoreau's The Journal: 1837-1861 and Melville's; or The Whale --Book Jacket.

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ISBN 13 : 9780192741929
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moby Dick, Or, The White Whale written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. * Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award (twice), and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Geraldine's most recent best-selling novel The Kite Rider was published to universal acclaimin March 2001

Author : Hershel Parker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801854286
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herman Melville: 1819-1851 written by Hershel Parker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book FICTION MOBY DICK; OR THE WHITE WHALE written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sigifredo Cavazos
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525505122
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest written by Sigifredo Cavazos and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest, set in America's Southwest, during 1996 --2001, during Clinton's and Bush's Administrations, is an intriguing and engaging story of an inquisitive, intelligent, but troubled Coloradan Vietnam veteran, who, having been born to an Anglo mother and an Hispanic father, sets out on a quest to find his true identity and place in the universe, by coming to Kingsville, Texas,, home of the legendary King Ranch, to explore his father's Chicano roots, as well as his own. In doing so, he becomes immersed in the corrupt public school, university, state, and federal politics, during this troubled period of Gore/Bush election fiasco, the Religious Right abortion issue, the 9/11 twin tower attack, and the Florida/Supreme Court decisions. During the course of these events, Christopher Worth Garcia, while exploring his father's Hispanic Tejano culture and music, meets the enchanting and beautiful but enigmatic Aurora and the members of the "Discussion Club," with the "colorful" name. Chris is thus caught and wound in a web which includes the stalker/husband from whom he has to find and extricate himself -- or perish.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : EDCON Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781555763268
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moby Dick written by Herman Melville and published by EDCON Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003-07-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring the Classics To Life. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details, sequence the events, draw inferences from story context, develop another name for the chapter, and choose the main idea. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Your students will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. In our society, knowledge of these Classics is a cultural necessity. Improves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

Author : Skip Finley
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682478335
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaling Captains of Color written by Skip Finley and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling was one of the first American industries to exhibit diversity. A man became a captain not because he was white or well connected, but because he knew how to kill a whale. Along the way, he could learn navigation and reading and writing. Whaling presented a tantalizing alternative to mainland life. Working with archival records at whaling museums, in libraries, from private archives and interviews with people whose ancestors were whaling masters, Finley culls stories from the lives of over 50 black whaling captains to create a portrait of what life was like for these leaders of color on the high seas. Each time a ship spotted a whale, a group often including the captain would jump into a small boat, row to the whale, and attack it, at times with the captain delivering the killing blow. The first, second, or third mate and boat steerer could eventually have opportunities to move into increasingly responsible roles. Finley explains how this skills-based system propelled captains of color to the helm. The book concludes as facts and factions conspire to kill the industry, including wars, weather, bad management, poor judgment, disease, obsolescence, and a non-renewable natural resource. Ironically, the end of the Civil War allowed the African Americans who were captains to exit the difficult and dangerous occupation—and make room for the Cape Verdean who picked up the mantle, literally to the end of the industry.

Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250173345
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Wild written by Carl Safina and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."—The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too come to understand yourself as an individual within a particular community that does things in specific ways, that has traditions. Alongside genes, culture is a second form of inheritance, passed through generations as pools of learned knowledge. As situations change, social learning—culture—allows behaviors to adjust much faster than genes can adapt. Becoming Wild brings readers into intimate proximity with various nonhuman individuals in their free-living communities. It presents a revelatory account of how animals function beyond our usual view. Safina shows that for non-humans and humans alike, culture comprises the answers to the question, “How do we live here?” It unites individuals within a group identity. But cultural groups often seek to avoid, or even be hostile toward, other factions. By showing that this is true across species, Safina illuminates why human cultural tensions remain maddeningly intractable despite the arbitrariness of many of our differences. Becoming Wild takes readers behind the curtain of life on Earth, to witness from a new vantage point the most world-saving of perceptions: how we are all connected.

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611680611
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After King Philip's War written by Colin G. Calloway and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on three centuries of Indian presence in New England