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Author : James P Mcguane
Release : 2002-10-29
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heart of Oak by : James P Mcguane
Download or read book Heart of Oak written by James P Mcguane. This book was released on 2002-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tar-ladles and snuffboxes to sailmaker's fids and carronades, this is a gorgeous photographic essay on Jack Aubrey's world in the Royal Navy. 280 color illustrations.
Author : Eddie Robson
Release : 2020-03-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hearts of Oak by : Eddie Robson
Download or read book Hearts of Oak written by Eddie Robson. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Hearts of Oak packs in] the sort of profound and lacerating laughter that Robson's countrymen Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett perfected." –NPR Hearts of Oak is a delightful science fiction adventure from Eddie Robson, the creator of the acclaimed Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully. The buildings grow. And the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally. Or perhaps they’ve always behaved that way, and it’s normality that’s at fault. And the king of the land confers with his best friend, who happens to be his closest advisor, who also happens to be a talking cat. But that’s all perfectly natural and not at all weird. Iona, close to retirement, finds that the world she has always known is nothing like she always believed it to be. There are dark forces . . . not dark. There are uncanny forces . . . no, not uncanny. There are forces, anyway, mostly slightly odd ones, and they appear to be acting in mysterious ways. It’s about town planning, it’s about cats and it’s about the nature of reality. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Lawrence Williams
Release : 2014
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Book Rating : 002/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Heart of Learning by : Lawrence Williams
Download or read book The Heart of Learning written by Lawrence Williams. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart of Learning provides heart-centered guidance and essential information for teaching young children and for creating a nurturing and effective learning environment.Written by Lawrence Williams, Oak Meadow's co-founder and a pioneer in homeschooling and distance learning.
Author : Charles Eliot Norton
Release : 1895
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Book Synopsis The Heart of Oak Books by : Charles Eliot Norton
Download or read book The Heart of Oak Books written by Charles Eliot Norton. This book was released on 1895. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denver Brunsman
Release : 2013-03-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Evil Necessity by : Denver Brunsman
Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman. This book was released on 2013-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
