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The Abode of Love by Aubrey Menen – "an appallingly inaccurate popular account" according to one review [55] – is a novelisation of the history of the Agapemonites under Prince's leadership. [56] In 2006 Smyth-Pigott's granddaughter, Kate Barlow, published an account of life as a child with her family in the sect.
Freight transport by sea has been widely used throughout recorded history. The advent of aviation has diminished the importance of sea travel for passengers, though it is still popular for short trips and pleasure cruises. Transport by water is cheaper than transport by air or ground, [1] but significantly slower for longer distances.
The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy [1]) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. [2] [3]The novels focus on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts which was transported back in time to 1250 BC due to something called "The Event".
On the Oceans of Eternity is a 2000 American science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling, the third and final book of the Nantucket alternate history series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novel was released in the United States and Canada on April 10, 2000, and was released in the United Kingdom on April 29 of the same year.
The Ocean ships were a class of sixty cargo ships built in the United States by Todd Shipyards Corporation during the Second World War for the British Ministry of War Transport under contracts let by the British Purchasing Commission. Eighteen were lost to enemy action and eight to accidents; survivors were sold postwar into merchant service.
The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by the American naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan.It details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discussed the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet.
Sea Otters are one of the cutest animals on the planet. Here are some of facts that will make you fall in love with them all over again. SEE ALSO: These tiny bats look just like cotton balls 1.
A marginal sea is a division of an ocean, partially enclosed by islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas, adjacent to or widely open to the open ocean at the surface, and/or bounded by submarine ridges on the sea floor. [7] The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is ...