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Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The USS Cowpens and her crew weren't your typical heroes. She was a flattop that the US Navy initially didn't want, with a captain nearly scapegoated for the loss of his last command, pilots who self-trained on the planes they would fly into combat, and sailors that had been in uniform barely longer than the ship had been afloat. Despite their humble origins, Cowpens and her band of second-string reservists and citizen sailors served with distinction,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Revolutionary War began, Britain had a well-trained army and the world's most powerful navy. The American rebels had a ragtag army and no navy at all. Early on, most British officers had a very low opinion of their enemy. They were sure the Americans would quickly be beaten. That proved to be wrong. Here is the story of how the Americans defeated the mightiest empire in the world.
Author
Physical Desc
1 journal in multi-folder box.
Language
English
Description
The collection consists of a mid-nineteenth-century manuscript journal of a noted Cape Cod sea captain. The volume dates from 1865-1869 and was kept by Captain Sturgis Crowell of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The book bears Captain Crowell's signature in various places, along with a later ownership inscription of his daughter Annie S. Crowell (1880-1956), who taught school in Hyannis. The journal chronicles numerous activities Captain Crowell engaged...
Pub. Date
1867
Physical Desc
1 box
Language
English
Description
The collection consists primarily of letters (with accompanying transcriptions) written by three brothers -- Asa K. Swift, Charles H. Swift, and H.A. (Holmes A.) Swift, mainly to their parents, Charles H. and Hannah Swift of Holmes Hole, Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard. The collection also includes letters from Franklin Luce (to his wife Martha), E. E. Norton, and A. D. Wells. Also included in the collection are photographs of ships in the "1898 storm,"...
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, maps ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship traveled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here are stories of social class, hierarchy and race; stories of explorers and the people of the land; the story of one of the world's most famous explorers told...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deep in a polluted city, a heartbroken office worker escapes to a park bench. He is joined by a mariner who has a tale to tell. Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch: a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste; a hidden repository for the world's litter. The mariner comes face-to-face with the consequences of man's excessive consumption--along...
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the legendary adventures of a shipwrecked sailor among the tiny people of Lilliput. In this strange land, Gulliver brings peace to two feuding kingdoms and reunites a prince with his princess before returning to the sea.
Pub. Date
1870
Physical Desc
2 albums
Language
English
Description
The collection consists of two albums of primarily carte de visite photographs of ship captains, their wives, their children, relatives, ship crew members, and some unconnected and unidentified people, most originally from Cape Cod. The majority of the photographs are dated 1870 and 1871. A number of them are taken in San Francisco, California and Liverpool, England. Most of the identified people lived in Harwich, Dennis, Chatham and Yarmouth. It...
295) South Pacific
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1943 and World War II rages on. The United States Navy has established several bases in the Solomon Islands, in preparation for an invasion towards New Guinea and the Central Pacific. On one of these islands lives a French planter named Emile de Becque. The Navy wishes to employ him to scout out the nearby Japanese held islands. To accomplish this task, de Becque is approached by Nellie Forbush, a US Navy nurse. Together they find refuge from...
Author
Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume no. 3
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 119 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Do you know the story of the slave who sailed himself to freedom? This book tells the true story of Robert Smalls, an enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the CSS Planter, escapes to freedom, and goes on to become a first-generation Black politician. -- page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Corto Maltese volume 7
Publisher
EuroComics, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
118 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With this book Pratt leaves behind the short story form he'd used for twenty-one interrelated tales and presents a truly epic graphic novel. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns--a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women--to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. They aren't the only ones lusting after the treasure....
Pub. Date
1774
Physical Desc
6 boxes.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains manuscripts which were originally part of the Kittredge collection of maritime materials. They were individually cataloged as part of the regular collections and accessible through records in the card catalog. Due to their fragile condition and unique content, they were recataloged to the archives sometime in the 1990s. They were recataloged and refoldeded again in 2009. The collection consists of a variety of manuscript...
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