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Author | : Tom Chaffin |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2007-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374707006 |
Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirateāa hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil. "A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and Sea of Glory
Author | : Thomas B. Allen |
Publisher | : National Geographic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780870448768 |
Covers the Civil War chronologically and gives biographical sketches of key persons, with an accompanying map supplement.32103021366202
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Total Pages | : 1280 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Carl Frederik Wandel |
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Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 1895-1896 |
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Author | : Iowa Geological Survey |
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Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Contains the Annual reports.
Author | : Kenneth L. Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Color |
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Author | : Wallace J. Nichols |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0316252077 |
A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being. Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with compelling personal stories from top athletes, leading scientists, military veterans, and gifted artists, he shows how proximity to water can improve performance, increase calm, diminish anxiety, and increase professional success. Blue Mind not only illustrates the crucial importance of our connection to water; it provides a paradigm shifting "blueprint" for a better life on this Blue Marble we call home.
Author | : Brian Allen Drake |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820347140 |
An unusual collection of Civil War essays as seen through the lens of noted environmental scholars, this book's provocative historical commentary explores how nature--disease, climate, flora and fauna, etc.--affected the war and how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature.
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Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Color |
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Author | : Marcel Minnaert |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1995-04-13 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780387979359 |
All of science springs from the observation of nature. In this classic book, the late Professor Minnaert accompanies the reader on a tour of nature's light and color and reveals the myriad phenomena that may be observed outdoors with no more than a pair of eyes and an enquiring mind. From the intriguing shape of the dapples beneath a tree on a sunny day, via rainbows, mirages, and haloes, the colors of liquid, ice, and the sky, to the appearance of the sun, moon, planets, and stars - Minnaert describes and explains them all in a clear language accessible to laymen. This new English edition is supplemented by 80 plates, over half of them in color, taken by the acclaimed photographer Pekka Parviainen, illustrating many of the phenomena - ordinary and exotic - discussed in the book.