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Forty Years Master : A Life in Sail and Steam /

During Daniel O. Killman's more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Killman, Daniel O., 1860-1936 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Lyman, John, 1915-1977 (Editor ), Huycke, Harold D., Jr., 1922-2007 (Editor ), Ellison, Rebecca Huycke, 1957- (Compilador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction / Brian J. Rouleau -- Early life -- From third mate to first mate -- Twice around Cape Horn -- Master in steam and sail -- Commanding the Kitsap -- The wreck of the Julia H. Ray -- Whalers in the Arctic -- Alaska and the salmon trade -- A married man -- Trouble on the Yangtze -- A court case -- To the Klondike for gold -- San Francisco earthquake, Yokohama typhoon -- The Peruvian oilfields -- Hurricane in the tropics -- War in Europe -- Arrested for murder -- A new owner for the H.K. Hall -- A run to Japan in a shipping board steamer -- A lost rudder -- Carrying coal to Peru -- An auto accident -- A Finnish sailor bests five Peruvian police -- Saving the charter of the Ella A. -- The last voyage of the schooner Ella A. -- Bound for home -- Afterword / David Hull -- Notes -- Glossary of nautical terms. 
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