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A careful reading of "The Tremolino" and The Arrow of Gold reveals that the whole Carlist plot is a sideline, an ornament that does not affect the course of action; its only function seems to be to glamorize and idealize smuggling. Two elements overlap in these books: the author's own recollections, modified in many respects, of the years 1877 ...
Grave of John Torrington. John Shaw Torrington (1825 – 1 January 1846) was a Royal Navy stoker.He was part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to chart unexplored areas of what is now Nunavut, Canada, find the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
LANSING — During World War II, Duane Nicol wrote more than 300 letters to his parents, and closed nearly every one in the same way while serving aboard ships in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Gann's classic memoir of early commercial aviation, Fate Is the Hunter, is still in print today and considered by many as one of the greatest aviation books ever written. [1] Some of Gann's nautical-themed novels include Fiddler's Green and Soldier of Fortune , which were also turned into major motion pictures.
Guinness Book of Astronomy - Patrick Moore; Guinness Book of Records - Ross and Norris McWhirter (1955-present) Gulistan (book) - Sa'di; Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift ; A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales - L. Sprague de Camp ; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by British author Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent). [1] They focus on the military careers of the fictional Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho in the Royal Navy, from the time of the American Revolution past the Napoleonic Era.
Frederick William Wallace (December 11, 1886 – July 15, 1958) was a journalist, photographer, historian and novelist. He is best known as the author of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, a now-classic 1924 book about the last days of the Age of Sail in Maritime Canada.
USS Gregory in early 1942. Charles Jackson French (September 25, 1919 – November 7, 1956) was a United States Navy sailor known for his heroic actions in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where he saved fifteen of his shipmates after their high-speed transport was sunk in combat.