Year: 1981 Language: English Author: Francis C. Genre: History Publisher: Pelham Bks.& B.B.C. Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 296 Description: The enormous size, fearful power, and mysterious depths of the oceans, and the story of man’s struggle to conquer them, are the subject of this book. The romance of trade and of great ocean liners; the frightening firepower of modern navies; the glories and miseries of naval history; the search for riches in and under the sea — these are among the themes explored in six voyages by Clare Francis. To her account of her discoveries are added essays by experts on specific aspects of the sea - including the history of ships and of war at sea, oceanography, the earliest navigators, and the biologyof the deep sea. Clare Francis brings to her narrative the experience of two singlehanded transatlantic voyages and of skippering ADC Accutrac in the Whitbread Round-The-World Race. In the course of making the films which accompany this book she dived to the floor of the ocean in the submersible A/vin, saw the full might of American sea power from the deck of the carrier Saratoga, entered the luxurious yet isolated world ofthe modern merchant seaman when she spent time on board a container ship, and realised the difficulties the explorers of the sixteenth century faced when she joined the crew of the replica of the Golden Hind. Her view is informed by her own knowledge of the perils and exhilarations of long ocean voyages, and marked by an infectious enthusiasm.
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The commanding sea
Language: English
Author: Francis C.
Genre: History
Publisher: Pelham Bks.& B.B.C.
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 296
Description: The enormous size, fearful power, and mysterious depths of the oceans, and the story of man’s struggle to conquer them, are the subject of this book.
The romance of trade and of great ocean liners; the frightening firepower of modern navies; the glories and miseries of naval history; the search for riches in and under the sea — these are among the themes explored in six voyages by Clare Francis. To her account of her discoveries are added essays by experts on specific aspects of the sea -
including the history of ships and of war at sea, oceanography, the earliest navigators, and the biologyof the deep sea.
Clare Francis brings to her narrative the experience of two singlehanded transatlantic voyages and of skippering ADC Accutrac in the Whitbread Round-The-World Race.
In the course of making the films which accompany this book she dived to the floor of the ocean in the submersible A/vin, saw the full might of American sea power from the deck of the carrier Saratoga, entered the luxurious yet isolated world ofthe modern merchant seaman when she spent time on board a container ship, and realised the difficulties the explorers of the sixteenth century faced when she joined the crew of the replica of the Golden Hind. Her view is informed by her own knowledge of the perils and exhilarations of long ocean voyages, and marked by an infectious enthusiasm.
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