Kipling and the sea: voyages and discoveries from North Atlantic and South Pacific
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1. Verfasser: Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lycett, Andrew (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2014
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Beschreibung:Acknowledgements; A Letter or Bill of Instruction; Poseidon's Law; The Gift of the Sea; The Coastwise Lights; Big Steamers; The Liner She's a Lady; The Junk and the Dhow; McAndrew's Hymn; The Mary Gloster; 'Tin Fish'; Mine Sweepers; Something of Myself; From Sea to Sea; The Ballad of the Clampherdown; The Rhyme of the Three Captains; The Ballad of the Bolivar; Something of Myself; Judson and the Empire; Something of Myself; The Sea-Wife; The Deep-Sea Cables; The Merchantmen; The White Seal; The Ship that Found Herself; Captains Courageous; The Devil and the Deep Sea
A Fleet in BeingNotes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron; Cruisers; The Dykes; Song of Diego Valdez; The Sea and the Hills; Their Lawful Occasions; China-going P. & O.'s; I've Never Sailed the Amazon; Song of the Red War-Boat; Speech Given at a Naval Club; October 1908: The Spirit of the Navy; Egypt of the Magicians; The Fringes of the Fleet; Tales of 'The Trade'; The Destroyers at Jutland; Speech to Some Junior Naval Officers; Of an East Coast Patrol, 1918; Brazilian Sketches; Epitaphs of the War; The Manner of Men; Letters; The King and the Sea
Kipling may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them. For him the sea was the glue which bound the British Empire together. To reach distant lands, you needed to sail. So Kipling wrote copiously about his own voyages - to India, across the Pacific and Atlantic, down to South Africa and Australia - and about the voyages of others. Sailors were particular heroes of his, as adventurers who braved every kind of element and danger in order to reach distant lands. In writing about them
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