Author: Robert Sweet
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Keywords: mariners, gps
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-03-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071410759
ISBN-13: 9780071410755
The manual you wish had come with your GPS receiver. "GPS for Mariners" summarizes essential global positioning system concepts, explains the buttons, screens, and menus of your GPS receiver, and answers all your questions. Filled with helpful illustrations and hands-on examples, this complete and practical guide shows you how to: become an informed GPS buyer and user; connect GPS to your computer, autopilot, and radar; navigate with GPS using waypoints and routes; use an electronic chartplotter or navigation software to plan and monitor your course; utilize the many functions in your GPS to s
Author: Lionel Casson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: mariners, ancient
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 1991-08-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691014779
ISBN-13: 9780691014777
Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first published in 1959, especially that from archaeology’s newest branch, marine archaeology. Casson does what no other author has done: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of
Author: David Burch
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Keywords: mariners, radar
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0071398678
ISBN-13: 9780071398671
Here is everything the small-boat skipper needs to install and operate radar equipment and master the art of interpreting its screen displays. Radar for Mariners helps sailors navigate through darkest night and the thickest fog with: Complete, in-depth instruction in marine radar--tuning, screen interpretation, collision avoidance, coastal navigation, and weather tactics Expert advice on choosing the best unit for a particular boat and installing it correctly A CD-ROM containing instructional freeware, an interactive demo version of the author’s well-known radar simulator prog
Author: Woody Falgoux
Publisher: Stockard James
Keywords: oil, race, mariners, cajun, rise
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 2007-04-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 097929200X
ISBN-13: 9780979292002
Rise of the Cajun Mariners carries the reader into a unique,previously unexplored realm-the old wild and wooly oilfield boat business. This international industry was born in Louisiana’s bayou country and pioneered by Cajuns.
Author: Kirby Arnold
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Keywords: dugout, mariners, seattle, tales
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1582618313
ISBN-13: 9781582618319
Reliever Bill Caudill handcuffed unsuspecting victims--including the team owner’s wife--to the dugout bench. Larry Andersen, Richie Zisk, and Joe Simpson made sure that everywhere bewildered manager Rene Lachemann went during the 1982 season, some JELL-O was sure to follow-- from his hotel bathroom sink, tub, and toilet (filled to the brim) to a postgame can of beer. Jay Buhner, one of the stars in the Seattle Mariners’ 1995 "Refuse to Lose" season, maintained the team’s proud, prank-filled history well into the ’90s with his "blurping"--vomiting on command. It’s
Author: Jon Turk
Publisher: International Marine/McGraw-Hill
Keywords: across, pacific, voyage, mariners, jomon, stone, wake
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-04-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0071449027
ISBN-13: 9780071449021
The thrilling account of an extraordinary journey in the tradition of Kon-Tiki. In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton was found beside the Columbia River, galvanizing anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from Asia by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In this compelling narrative, world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration. This story wraps an intriguing anthropological argument inside a gripping narrative about the sea, an ancient people, and the wilderness of northeast Sib
At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II
Author: Sam Moses
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: turned, tide, world, war, mariners, merchant, crippled, ship, american, costs
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1400063183
ISBN-13: 9781400063185
In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing Nazi Norway with her child. It’s about how courage can change the course of history. AT ALL COSTS: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Turned the Tide of World War II is the astonishing untold account, with original historical reporting, of how two men faced unfathomable danger
