Inshore Craft of Norway
Author: Bernhard Færøyvik
Publisher:
Published: 1979-01
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780851772004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernhard Færøyvik
Publisher:
Published: 1979-01
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780851772004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernhard Færøyvik
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9788250403734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Basil Greenhill
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 1473822602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft that once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles. The types are arranged by coastal area and each is described in terms of its shape and design, fitness for location and purpose, build, evolution and geographical distribution. Details of dimensions, rig, building materials, seamanship and the survival of examples are given where known, while hundreds of line drawings and photographs show the vessels in their original forms.A team of twelve experts describe all these boat types and, in addition, there are introductions to the main geographic areas outlining the physical environments, fisheries and other uses of the sea that have influenced boat design; maps of all the areas show ports and physical features.At the beginning of the last century sail and oar dominated fisheries and local trade: one hundred years later those craft have all but vanished. This book brings alive for maritime historians and enthusiasts, traditional boat sailors, modelmakers, and all those with an interest in local history, the vast array of craft that were once such a significant feature of our inshore seas.Inshore Craft is a spectacular achievement—Wooden Boat Magazine
Author: Basil Greenhill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An attempt to list, define, describe and illustrate the coastal vessels which operated under sail and oar in the waters around the British Isles, roughly covering the dates 1820 to 1920 (p. 7).
Author: Arnved Nedkvitne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-27
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 135125958X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences.
Author: Brian Fagan
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0786722339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. A fascinating and multifaceted book, Fish on Friday will intrigue everyone who wonders how the vast forces of climate, culture, and technology conspire to create the history we know.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-07-31
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9004280359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Lordship of the Isles, twelve specialists offer new insights on the rise and fall of the MacDonalds of Islay and the greatest Gaelic lordship of later medieval Scotland. Portrayed most often as either the independently-minded last great patrons of Scottish Gaelic culture or as dangerous rivals to the Stewart kings for mastery of Scotland, this collection navigates through such opposed perspectives to re-examine the politics, culture, society and connections of Highland and Hebridean Scotland from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It delivers a compelling account of a land and people caught literally and figuratively between two worlds, those of the Atlantic and mainland Scotland, and of Gaelic and Anglophone culture. Contributors are David Caldwell, Sonja Cameron, Alastair Campbell, Alison Cathcart, Colin Martin, Tom McNeill, Lachlan Nicholson, Richard Oram, Michael Penman, Alasdair Ross, Geoffrey Stell and Sarah Thomas.
Author: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 144299570X
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published:
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1442996218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mike Smylie
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1445614340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first history of traditional fishing boats of Europe.