The Levelling Sea
Title | The Levelling Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Marsden |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Falmouth (England) |
ISBN | 9780007174546 |
The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute more than anything to the transformation of the country from a small rebel state on the fringes of Europe into a world power. Until then, it was said, there was only one Englishman capable of sailing across the Atlantic. Yet within ten years an English ship with an English crew was circumnavigating the world. At the same time in Cornwall, in the Fal estuary, just a single building - a lime kiln - existed where the port of Falmouth would emerge. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, Falmouth would be one of the busiest harbours in the world. 'The Levelling Sea' uses the story of Falmouth's spectacular rise and fall to explore wider questions about the sea and its place in history and imagination. Drawing on his own deep connection with Cornwall, award-winning author Philip Marsden writes unforgettably about the power of the sea and its ability to produce greed on a piratical scale, dizzying corruption, and grand and tragic aspirations.
Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India: Levelling of precision in India (1858-1909)
Title | Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India: Levelling of precision in India (1858-1909) PDF eBook |
Author | India. Great Trigonometrical Survey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Sea-level Changes and Their Effects
Title | Sea-level Changes and Their Effects PDF eBook |
Author | John Noye |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9810236182 |
One of the outcomes of the international Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific International Conference held in Adelaide, South Australia on 23-27 October 1995 ... The first book to result from this NTF initiative, was published [in 1999] with the title "Modelling coastal sea processes". The present book ... is the second in this series.
Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
Title | Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India PDF eBook |
Author | Survey of India. Trigonometrical Branch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Geodesy |
ISBN |
Science Progress
Title | Science Progress PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 772 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
A review journal of current scientific advance.
Oceanological Studies
Title | Oceanological Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Oceanological Studies
Title | Oceanological Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
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