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“He was, like so many of the men made large by history, rather mediocre in the flesh, the fine tailoring highlighting rather than hiding his physical shortcomings. […] A man made more for grand dinners than seafaring.”

Men History Mediocrity Seafaring

Book:How to Stop Time

Source: How to Stop Time

“Conrad tillhör de sjömän som får uppleva hur ångan triumferar och seglen försvinner från haven. Han befinner sig mitt inne i ett väldigt maktskifte. En tusenårig tradition bryts och ett helt nytt element förs in. På segelfartyget är det kaptenen och hans män som är förmedlarna mellan Gud och världen. De fångar in och tyglar vinden som driver fartyget framåt. Seglaren lever i nära förbindelse med naturen, som han måste böja sig för, som han betjänar och utnyttjar. När ångan kom, togs makten från kaptenen och gavs åt maskinisten i maskindjupet. Man seglade inte på havet längre utan plöjde sig genom det. Befälet på bryggan flyttades ned, förnedrades, hade blott själva navigeringen kvar och inte kraftöverföringen.”

Joseph Conrad Seafaring Steam Engine Man And Machine

Book:Färd med Mörkrets hjärta: En bok om Joseph Conrads roman

Source: Färd med Mörkrets hjärta: En bok om Joseph Conrads roman

“A sweet surrender like a lullaby came to me through your seafaring eyes.”

Love Relationships Motherhood Surrender Eyes Sweetness Gazing Lullaby Love Song Seafaring

Book:Your Mother Is A Storm

Source: Your Mother Is A Storm

“I’m engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton’s A Veritable Smorgasbord is a well-deserving classic, it’s a stanza too short for my morphing existence. So I write my own.”

Writing Sea Rats Seafaring Smorgasbord Templeton Rat

Book:On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“We had taken him for a Norwegian ship's captain and had come to his table to hear some more about seafaring, not about philosophy, from which, indeed, we had fled north from Central Europe.”

Philosophy Seafaring

Book:The Voice Imitator

Source: The Voice Imitator

“There was no water for miles on end here, not even a small lake, and he was starting to feel like a man trapped in a prison.”

Water Sea Travel Wanderer Seafaring

Book:Wandering Storm

Source: Wandering Storm

“My broad conclusion is that an advanced global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, that it mapped the earth as it looked then with stunning accuracy, and that it had solved the problem of longitude, which our own civilization failed to do until the invention of Harrison's marine chronometer in the late eighteenth century. As masters of celestial navigation, as explorers, as geographers, and as cartographers, therefore, this lost civilization of 12,800 years ago was not outstripped by Western science until less than 300 years ago at the peak of the Age of Discovery.”

Masters Civilization Explorers Navigation Ice Age Seafaring Lost Civilization

Book:America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Source: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

“Wie auch die Mutter sich bemühte, ihn an den Deich und an das Land zu gewöhnen - er sprach von der See und guckte nach den Schiffen, als wenn es weiter nichts auf der Welt gäbe.”

Sea Fishing German Hamburg Seafaring

Book:Seefahrt is not!

Source: Seefahrt is not!

“Sie sagten man solle und dürfe niemanden aufs Wasser weisen. Wer den Weg nach dem Schiff nicht von selbst finde, aus dem könne doch kein Seemann werden.”

Sea Fishing Sailor German Hamburg Seafaring

Book:Seefahrt is not!

Source: Seefahrt is not!

“With my beloved sword I ministered to them, as it was meet. In no wise had they joy in that banqueting, foul doers of ill deeds, that they should devour me sitting round in feast nigh to the bottoms of the sea; nay, upon the morrow they lay upon the shore in the flotsam of the waves, wounded with sword-thrusts, blades done to death, so that never there-after might they about the steep straights molest the passage of seafaring men.”

Flying Boasting Seafaring Sea Monsters

Book:Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

Source: Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell