For more than thirty years now I’ve been lucky to read, teach, and write about the sea, often while aboard ships gazing with students and fellow authors upon a 360˚ saltwater horizon. The open ocean is a big place, of course, and our relationship with this most expansive and influent...
He came home from that trip raving about how crazy talented you are and how very down to earth you seemed to be, he and was super impressed that when the rest of the cast hurried off after the show you stayed to talk to everyone gathered at the back door, and when it was finally t...
After leaving theVidarConrad unexpectedly obtained his first command, on theOtago,sailing fromBangkok, an experience out of which he was to make his stories “The Shadow-Line” and “Falk.” He took over theOtagoin unpropitious circumstances. The captain Conrad replaced had died at sea, and by...
In 1981, Imants Tillers had already begun a collective body of work known as The Book of Power, which has its roots in Mallarmé’s dictum “tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir à un livre“, variously translated as “everything in the world exists to end up as a book”,“every...
For example, traditional sailing ships and cannon have a lot in common with the classical orders in that they were all based on a proportional system. This not only insured that all the moulds would be in proportion to the length of a cannon barrel but that the trunions would be sturdy ...
SAILING SHIPS Written by Ron Van Der Meer; Alan McGowan. Illustrated by Borje Svensson. Stock no. 2140916 Published by Viking. 1st 1984. Almost very good condition. With their sails hoisted high, three-dimensional ships travel across these pages in dramatic and authentic style. Large forma...
Authority records indicate that August Gideshu served aboard the Central Authority Sailing-Ship (or CASS) 'Zephyr', under Captain Hector Corbet. Little else is known about this ship's crew or specifications, aside from the fact that it served in the Eastern Luminant, and experienced several clas...
Set in the days of sailing ships and active pirate expeditions, it follows the adventures of Jim Hawkins and his search for the buried treasure of an evil old pirate, Captain Flint. It’s definitely a story that explores the satisfaction of desires, and, indeed, the motivation of greed. ...
When I was growing up, easy to read books about ocean liners helped shape my understanding of the significance of these great ships. Both Rachelle Cross and I think it’s important to make maritime history accessible, interesting and understandable. Our books are written with this in mind, ...
Using the battles of Trafalgar (1805), Jutland (1916), Midway (1942), and two Atlantic convoys (1943), he traces the evolution of naval warfare from the era of the classic sailing ships through the 20th century's armored dreadnoughts, aircraft carriers, and submarines. When Keegan de- ...