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Combo Sale: Persons, Animals, + Ships and the sea.

Combo Sale: Persons, Animals, + Ships and the sea. [B00211] Two books for $62.55 --Combination of Persons, Animals, Ships, and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian and the Oxford Companion To Ships And The Sea, 2nd Ed. P, Your price $62.55, Book Number B00211. Go top.

Oxford Companion To Ships And The Sea 2nd Ed.; The,

by Peter Kemp, --Everything nautical under one cover. This companion includes biographies of famous seamen, descriptions of famous and no-so-famous naval battles, stories of great ships and great races, entries on seafaring literature, surveys of marine designers and engineers, language and principles of shipbuilding, navigation, and much more. Exhaustive. Many drawings. Clear presentation of catharpings. The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea is a completely revised and updated edition of a classic volume that was first published in 1976 to huge acclaim. It brings together more than 2,600 entries on every imaginable aspect of the seas and the vessels that sail on them, from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, and marine mammals, to tidal power, piracy, and the literature and language of the sea. This second edition provides significant new material on topics that have come to prominence in recent times, such as oceanography and marine archaeology: key contributions on these subjects from marine expert Dr Martin Angel at Southampton Oceanography Centre include climate change, environmental issues, marine pollution, and marine wildlife. Among the many brand new entries to this edition are up-to-the-minute articles on underwater vehicles, tsunamis, warfare at sea, marine pollution, the Economic Exclusion Zone, and ship preservation. This Companion also includes authoritative and fascinating entries on maritime history: its naval battles, including Pearl Harbour and Trafalgar; its great ships, from Noah's Ark and the Bounty to the Titanic and the Mary Rose; and its most famous individuals, both real and fictional, including Christopher Columbus, Horatio Nelson, and Robinson Crusoe. Entries are fully cross-referenced, and the text is illustrated with over 260 detailed drawings, making it more accessible than ever before. I. C. B. Dear (general editor of the second edition) was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He is the general editor of the highly-acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Second World War and the compiler of Oxford English: A Guide to the Language. The late Peter Kemp (general editor of the first edition) was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth. He published widely on naval, military, and yachting subjects, and wrote several children's novels. . Oxford Univ. Press, 2005, Many Illustr., Drawings, Photos, Appendices, Index, 6 X 9. H, List Price $65.00, Your price $42.25, Book Number B01304. Go top.

Persons, Animals, Ships, and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian

by Anthony Gary Brown, --This book catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their far-ranging web of wit and allusion, teem with thousands of characters and ships, both imaginary and historical. From Master and Commander to The Hundred Days, this dictionary distinguishes the fictional from the factual, making a useful series companion for both the casual reader and the most ardent O'Brian fans. Each of the more than 4,500 alphabetized entries provides a reference to the novels and chapters in which the topic appears. Additionally, biographical notes on the historical figures are included, with sources provided in an annotated bibliography. A native of England raised in a Royal Navy family, Anthony Gary Brown earned his Ph.D. at Oxford. He is a writer and business consultant living in Los Angeles. The author adds: "Incidentally, may I correct the impression that my own PASC is a mere concordance (ie a context-free listing of terms and their occurrence)? I'm partly responsible for this myself as I called it such way back when its preliminary version was an [internet] offering. In fact it is more of a biographical dictionary of the people and ships in the canon. You get full contextual details of who they are and what they do (together with extensive cross-referencing and notes on POB's slips and inconsistencies). You also get full notes of the historical origins of the people, ships and incidents. For example: an Index can tell you where Prof. Ebenezer Graham is mentioned in the canon, and in what regards: it can't tell you, as PASC does, that's he's part-based on the real Prof. Hugh Cleghorn. An index will tell you who supposedly owned Potoooooooo the race-horse (because that's in the canon), but not how he was pronounced, who he really was and which of his real equine relatives are also mentioned in the canon.. McFarland & Co., 1999, Source book, 7 X10. P, List Price $35.00, Your price $22.00, Book Number B00692. Go top.