Voyages of a Simple Sailor
Title | Voyages of a Simple Sailor PDF eBook |
Author | Roger D. Taylor |
Publisher | Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-05-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0955803551 |
This book is a distillation of over 50 years of sailing experience, describing small-boat voyaging from a unique and deeply considered perspective.
The Sailor's Word-book
Title | The Sailor's Word-book PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry Smyth |
Publisher | London : Blackie and son |
Pages | 836 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
A Sailor's Logbook
Title | A Sailor's Logbook PDF eBook |
Author | Mark L. Thompson |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780814328446 |
A firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes.
Just a Sailor
Title | Just a Sailor PDF eBook |
Author | Steven L. Waterman |
Publisher | Findtech Limited |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780978763787 |
EYES UNDER THE WATER When Steve Waterman left home in 1964, he was looking for the most exciting job the U.S. Navy had to offer. So Waterman became an underwater photographer, joining an elite group that numbered only fifteen men in the entire navy--men always on call for unusual and interesting assignments. Yet it was the time Waterman spent in Vietnam with Underwater Demolition Team 13 that deserves special respect. Existing in a state of adrenaline driven alertness, UDT-13 men carried out their harrowing missions. Stealthily, silently, they crept through Vietnam's waterways, never knowing if the next bend in the river concealed VC patiently waiting to spring a fiery, murderous ambush. Employing the wit and unvarnished honesty that got him into trouble more than once during his thirteen years in the navy, Waterman unfolds a compelling tale of an ordinary sailor who chose to serve his country during one of the most controversial, challenging times in its history.
A Passion for the Sea
Title | A Passion for the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Jimmy Cornell |
Publisher | Adlard Coles |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781408122686 |
'What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth knowing' (Yachting World) One of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles in more than thirty years on the oceans, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams into reality and follow in his footsteps. In this new book, Jimmy tells the story of his own travels in great detail. Decades of offshore sailing experience are distilled into this colourful account, which is packed with valuable observations, spiced up with entertaining anecdotes, and illustrated with brilliant photos from along the way. Much more than just an exciting report of his adventures, Jimmy draws on his experiences to share practical tips for those inspired to follow his example, along with important technical information.
As The Sailor Loves The Sea
Title | As The Sailor Loves The Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Ballard Hadman |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1786254506 |
Described in graphic & amusing detail, making a living from the sea. The artistic Ms. Hadman went to Alaska in 1938 to paint and draw, but while there met and married a fisherman in the Southeast. Here she tells of their isolated life in the village of Craig, and later in Sitka (hardly a metropolis then, either); of how she too became fisherfolk and a native, and how the War affected them and their neighbors.
Battleship Sailor
Title | Battleship Sailor PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore C. Mason |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
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.