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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.