Steaming East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steaming East write by Sarah Searight. This book was released on 1991. Steaming East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the beginning of the 19th century, it took months to get from England to India, clear at the other end of the Empire. Better communications were imperative. This is the story of how it was done - laboriously, stubbornly, sometimes misguidedly - by several generations of entrepeneurs, engineers, inventors and military men, first with steamships and then by railway. It is a story full of colourful anecdotes and even more colourful characters, from Captain Charles Chesney (who tried - and failed - to establish a steamship route on the Euphrates River to the founder of the Orient Express (who rejoiced in the name of Georges Nagelmackers) to Major James Buster Browne, builder of a rail line across a Northwest Indian desert so inhospitable that 32 soldiers died there of heat stroke when their train broke down. The account spans roughly a century, from the first tentative use of steam engines in ships to the decline of the great age of railways following World War I.
Steaming to Bamboola
Steaming to Bamboola - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steaming to Bamboola write by Christopher Buckley. This book was released on 2023-05-01. Steaming to Bamboola available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic for the umpteenth time—but on this occasion with a sharp-eyed observer, whose brilliant account brings to life the harshness, humor, and bizarreness of life on board. Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance. It is the tale of a ship and her crew, men fated to wander for a living—always steaming to, but never quite reaching, Bamboola. This was the first book by renowned author and humorist Christopher Buckley, which was originally published in 1982 to glowing reviews. Forty years and over twenty books and hundreds of articles later, Buckley introduces Columbianna and her roguish crew to a new generation of readers.
McCracken's Practical Navigation
McCracken's Practical Navigation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook McCracken's Practical Navigation write by John James McCracken. This book was released on 1921. McCracken's Practical Navigation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Armenia and the Near East
Armenia and the Near East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armenia and the Near East write by Fridtjof Nansen. This book was released on 1928. Armenia and the Near East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, and Electricity, for the Use of Junior Officers Afloat
Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, and Electricity, for the Use of Junior Officers Afloat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, and Electricity, for the Use of Junior Officers Afloat write by James Alfred Ewing. This book was released on 1911. Examples in Mathematics, Mechanics, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Heat and Steam, and Electricity, for the Use of Junior Officers Afloat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
