The Master Mariner

Download or read book The Master Mariner written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bitter days that followed Trafalgar, Matthew Lawe watched as England mourned her greatest sailor son and then turned sadly away, a man damned to live forever. If damned he was then he'd take the trade of the damned, as master of a slaver bound out of Liverpool for the hellhole ports of Africa and the Caribbean paradise of rum and tobacco and trader's gold ...

Download or read book Master Mariner written by Philip Rentell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.

Download or read book Bligh written by Rob Mundle and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald). The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors. From ship’s boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there was to Captain Bligh than his infamous bad temper. Meet a twenty-four-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his captain and mentor, Cook; a thirty-four-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic forty-seven-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; and a thirty-six-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence, in the company of a young Matthew Flinders, on a grand voyage to Tahiti and back. This book goes beyond the character we’ve seen in movies—into the real life of a complex and remarkable seaman.

Download or read book Master Mariner written by and published by L. Ron Hubbard. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sail with L. Ron Hubbard and navigate his immense nautical legacy. View the ships' logs chronicling his voyages, his photographic records and previously unpublished essays telling of a life at sea and a “Master of Any Vessel on Any Ocean.”

Download or read book Joseph Conrad written by Peter Villiers and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master's ticket and commanding the barque Otago. This book traces his sea-career, and shows how Captain Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, master mariner, became Joseph Conrad, master novelist. In addition to a new analysis of Conrad as mariner, the book contains a wealth of detail about the merchant service in the late nineteenth century-the economics of sail, the cargoes, the competition with steam, the skill and teamwork required to maneuver a windjammer, the harsh realities and dangers of everyday life at sea.

Download or read book The Master Mariner, Book 2 written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by New York : Morrow. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Running Proud, Matthew Lawe continues his 400-year odyssey by shipping on an illegal slave trader in the year 1808.

Download or read book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: