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Egyptian literature --- History and criticism. --- -Ancient Egyptian literature --- History and criticism --- -History and criticism --- Shipwrecked sailor. --- Сказка о потерпевшем кораблекрушение --- Skazka o poterpevshem korablekrushenie --- Conte du naufragé --- Приказка за корабокрушенеца --- Prikazka za korabokrushenet︠s︡a --- Tale of the shipwrecked sailor --- Story of the shipwrecked sailor --- Egyptian literature - History and criticism.

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Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s. His collection is unique in the annals of Great Lakes folklore. It began as a search for songs but broadened into a collection of weather signs, shipboard beliefs, greenhorn tales, and stories of the intense rivalry between sailors and the steamboat men who replaced them. Edited by Joe Grimm, Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton is a selection from the daily journals Walton wrote during his travels as a folklore collector. It is clear that Walton, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, both admired the sailors of the Great Lakes for what they had done during their working years and worried about them as they entered the twilight of their lives. Walton went beyond the songs he set out to find and captured the pitch and roll of the Great Lakes alive with white-winged schooners. His writings provide a clear picture of the colorful individuals he met and interviewed-captains, cabin boys, tugmen, chandlers, boardinghouse owners, dredgers, and light keepers. Walton also documented the methods he used and recorded his personal thoughts about his nomadic life and the events going on around him during the 1930s, including the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt's election, and the end of Prohibition.

Great Lakes (North America) --- History --- Folk music --- Sea songs --- History and criticism. --- Walton, Ivan. --- Boatmen's songs --- Chanteys --- Chanties --- Chantys --- Merchant mariners' songs --- Sailor songs --- Sailors' songs --- Sea chanteys --- Sea chanties --- Sea shanties --- Seas --- Shanties --- Sea poetry --- Songs --- Ocean --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- Regional studies

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In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines-clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing-for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse-often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways-for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970's and 1980's, these dueling projections vied for public support-with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.

Mercator projection (Cartography) --- Cartography --- Loxodrome. --- Peters projection (Cartography) --- Navigation. --- Social aspects. --- maps, mapping, mapmaking, society, historical, academic, scholarly, research, illustrated, controversial, controversy, flemish, cartography, cartographer, gerard mercator, legacy, life story, 1500s, earth, flat, round, mariner, sea, seafaring, sailor, direction, compass, 19th, century, atlas, geopolitical, propaganda, colonialism, colonial, criticism, innovation.

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The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They were the products of engineering ingenuity, political controversies, naval ideologies and the fight for authority in nineteenth-century Britain. Shaping the Royal Navy provides the first cultural history of technology, authority and the Royal Navy in the years of Pax Britannica. It places the story firmly within the currents of British history to reconstruct the controversial and high-profile nature of naval architecture. The technological transformation of the Navy dominated the British government and engineering communities. This book explores its history, revealing how ship design became a modern science, the ways that actors competed for authority within the British state and why the nature of naval power changed.

Warships. --- Naval art and science. --- Naval art and science --- Warships --- Fighting --- Naval administration --- Naval science --- Naval warfare --- Navy --- War, Maritime --- War --- Military art and science --- Navies --- Navigation --- Naval ships --- War-ships --- Government vessels --- Naval architecture --- Ships --- Armored vessels --- History --- Great Britain. --- England and Wales. --- צי הבריטי --- 1800-1899 --- Weapons systems --- 1830 Whig government. --- Captain. --- Pax Britannica. --- Royal Navy. --- Royal Sovereign. --- Warrior. --- naval architecture. --- naval thinking. --- sailor-designer identity. --- ship design. --- steam powered machine. --- wooden walls.