Mastering the Inland Seas

Mastering the Inland Seas
Title Mastering the Inland Seas PDF eBook
Author Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Pages 379
Release 2020-04-21
Genre History
ISBN 0299326306

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Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics, and environment of continental North America. Synthesizing popular as well as original historical scholarship, Karamanski weaves a colorful narrative illustrating how disparate private and government interests transformed these vast and dangerous waters into the largest inland water transportation system in the world. Karamanski explores both the navigational and sailing tools of First Nations peoples and the dismissive and foolhardy attitude of early European maritime sailors. He investigates the role played by commercial boats in the Underground Railroad, as well as how the federal development of crucial navigational resources exacerbated sectionalism in the antebellum United States. Ultimately Mastering the Inland Sea shows the undeniable environmental impact of technologies used by the modern commercial maritime industry. This expansive story illuminates the symbiotic relationship between infrastructure investment in the region's interconnected waterways and North America's lasting economic and political development.

The Living Great Lakes

The Living Great Lakes
Title The Living Great Lakes PDF eBook
Author Jerry Dennis
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 326
Release 2004-06
Genre History
ISBN 9780312331030

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The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.

The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea
Title The Inland Sea PDF eBook
Author Donald Richie
Publisher Stone Bridge Press
Pages 322
Release 2015-09-28
Genre Travel
ISBN 1611729165

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"An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924-2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915-2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.

Schooner Passage

Schooner Passage
Title Schooner Passage PDF eBook
Author Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 284
Release 2000
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780814329115

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The evolution of the Lake Michigan Schooner -- The maritime frontier : schooners and urban development on the Lake Michigan shore -- Before the mast and at the helm : captains and crews on Lake Michigan schooners -- Schooner City : the life and times of the Chicago River port -- Lost on Lake Michigan wrecks, rescues, and navigational aids.

Peoples of the Inland Sea

Peoples of the Inland Sea
Title Peoples of the Inland Sea PDF eBook
Author David Andrew Nichols
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9780821423202

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David Andrew Nichols offers a fresh history of the Lakes peoples over nearly three centuries of rapid change. As the people themselves persisted, so did their customs, religions, and control over their destinies. Accessible and creative, this book is destined to become a classroom staple for Native American history.

Navigation Rules

Navigation Rules
Title Navigation Rules PDF eBook
Author United States. Coast Guard
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Pages 338
Release 2011
Genre Inland navigation
ISBN 1616082437

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For anyone who owns a boat, this is the handbook for you. Included are all of the official government rules and regulations that must be followed by anyone out on the water. This book will prepare you for head?on situations, avoiding collisions, using, distress signals, and will inform you of all the up?to?date water regulations. Whether you?re in a jam or just relaxing at sea, Navigation Rules will teach and prepare you for anything and everything you may encounter while on your boat.

The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea
Title The Inland Sea PDF eBook
Author Madeleine Watts
Publisher Pushkin Press
Pages 256
Release 2020-03-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1911590243

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A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world As she faces the open wilderness of adulthood, our narrator finds that the world around her is coming undone. She works as an emergency dispatch operator, trapped in constant crisis as fires and floods rage across Australia. Her personal life is buckling under her self-destructive obsessions - she drinks heaily, sleeps with strangers, wanders the streets of Sydney at night, and pursues a disastrous affair with an ex-lover. Desperate and adrift, she yearns for change. Building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis, The Inland Sea is a fierce and beautiful novel about the search for refuge in a state of emergency. Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in New York since 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her essays have appeared in The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. The Inland Sea is her first novel.