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Author | : Alan Villiers |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
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Den amerikanske Kaptajn A. Villiers med erfaring fra sejlads i alverdens forskellige skibstyper beskriver her skibenes og skibstypernes udvikling fra Oldtidens Ægypten til den moderne tid med et væld af instruktive tegninger, diagrammer, kort og ill. efter malerier.
Author | : Steven Ujifusa |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1451645082 |
“A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner in history. The story of a great American Builder at the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the SS United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when “made in America” meant the best. Gibbs was an American original, on par with John Roebling of the Brooklyn Bridge and Frank Lloyd Wright of Fallingwater. Forced to drop out of Harvard following his family’s sudden financial ruin, he overcame debilitating shyness and lack of formal training to become the visionary creator of some of the finest ships in history. He spent forty years dreaming of the ship that became the SS United States. William Francis Gibbs was driven, relentless, and committed to excellence. He loved his ship, the idea of it, and the realization of it, and he devoted himself to making it the epitome of luxury travel during the triumphant post-World War II era. Biographer Steven Ujifusa brilliantly describes the way Gibbs worked and how his vision transformed an industry. A Man and His Ship is a tale of ingenuity and enterprise, a truly remarkable journey on land and sea.
Author | : Viliers A. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Alan Villiers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
ISBN | : 9780870440182 |
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Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Sailing ships |
ISBN | : 0393050335 |
A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
Author | : John F. Lehman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
From the youngest ever Secretary of the Navy comes an action-packed history of the service and the heroic men, great ships and epic battles that made it the world's greatest. photos. Maps.
Author | : Horatio Clare |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Seafaring life |
ISBN | : 0099526298 |
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable journeys. As the ships cross seas of history and incident, seafarers unfold the stories of their lives, and a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges. 'Tremendous' The Times
Author | : Dominick Jones |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786475803 |
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.
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Alan John Villiers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780758178961 |