A Sailor's Tales

A Sailor's Tales
Author: Bill Robinson
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1978-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780393335729

Along the way are hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons and earthquakes in the Pacific and the Orient, wild times on Navy ships and on Navy liberty ashore, as well as rescues at sea--including the famous sinking of the Mary E in the 1976 Miami-Nassau race. There are also evocative stories of idyllic cruises and places, like Nantucket, Scandinavia, Greece, and the coasts of the United States. Robinson's stories are peopled with a warm, amusing, and frequently dramatic cast of characters, including yachts themselves--ranging from sailing skiffs to large ocean-racing machines, and most things in between--old and new, large and small, in storm and calm. His has been a rich sailing life and his stories tell of it with fascination and inescapable entertainment.

A Sailor's Tale

A Sailor's Tale
Author: E.G. ‘Lusko
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2019-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1796031402

In 1888, a US Navy sailor begins writing letters to his niece. The letters tell her where he is and what ventures he has gotten himself into. His sailor letters are retrospective, written after things happen. He also must tell her how he got to the place in time he started writing. He is educated for the time, trained as a naval navigator, lighthouse repairman, and watch repairman. His language is as he would speak to his fellow crew—clipped, as sailors use few G sounds, and an apostrophe is used to indicate the word is shortened, as they do. He is honest and kind. He is well trained in sword fighting. His enlistment contract is not the standard form. His mother’s attorney wrote it. The fleet admiral approved it as he had served with the sailor’s uncle. His uncle was a noted ship navigator, shipmaster, an author of navy lore, and now provided ocean metrological data to the naval observatory. He has carried this on. His early experiences involve train travel to San Francisco. The ship charts the then Northwest Territory and the Alaskan coast. His group verifies charts of the Missouri River. Mostly, his ship supplies food provisions to navy frigates in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea

The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea
Author: L. C. Tang
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781632214270

"I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea." Alain Gerbault The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea invites you to look behind cruise ship doors and join in one woman's adventures during her life at sea. Lincee Tang decides to celebrate her milestone thirtieth birthday with a vacation cruise which ignites her desire to sail away to many ports of call proudly wearing the uniform in the Entertainment Department. Lincee's story of making memories at sea unveils the hidden truths and untold stories of the sailing crew who work hard to make passengers' ocean journeys enjoyable. Taking hold of her courage to lose sight of the shore, Lincee discovers hidden talents within, forges ahead with resilience in tough situations, and has her chance at romance and love. Discover how removing inhibitions and fear of the unknown can lead to a whole world of possibilities and adventures. Finding growth in unexpected social, emotional and spiritual avenues leads one to explore how it is possible to reach new horizons. "The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." Jacques Cousteau "They that go down to the ship, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep." Psalm 107: 23-24 "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus

Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101911093

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.

A Sailor's Story

A Sailor's Story
Author: Sam Glanzman
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0486798127

"An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.

The Shipwrecked Sailor: A Tale from Egypt

The Shipwrecked Sailor: A Tale from Egypt
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2022-08-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1684526620

Sadiki fears the worst when he is tossed from his ship in a storm. But a chance encounter with a serpent changes his life and that of the Pharoah.

A Sailor's Tale

A Sailor's Tale
Author: Richard Moss
Publisher: Melrose Book Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Admirals
ISBN: 9781907040962

A Sailor's Tale is a rolling tale, based on real people and real events, creatively coloured with characters of a more dubious pedigree, A Sailor's Tale illustrates what a group of men in their twenties got up to, sailing one of King George VI's lesser warships around the world during and just after the last war.

Battleship Sailor

Battleship Sailor
Author: Theodore C. Mason
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612511562

Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.