Nautical Illustrations

Nautical IllustrationsWhile this book is intended is intended for all who love boats, ships, history, and nautical lore, it is also designed as a definitive source of high quality, royalty free images for use by artists, graphic designers, desktop publishers, ad agencies, and more. This collection of 681 wood engravings includes striking examples of some of the world's most beautiful boats and ships. Among the many famous vessels in this volume are Columbus's ships, the

a rich reward that incites a bitter competition in 17th-century Holland

My First Summer in the Sierra incorporates the lyrical accounts and sketches he produced during his four-month stay in the Yosemite River Valley and the High Sierra

in pursuit of his dubious scheme

Additional topics include finite element methods for integral equations

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Carl Jung made a dramatic break from the psychoanalytic tradition established by his mentor

and Stirner predicted — years before the publication of Marx's Manifesto — that socialism would climax in the ultimate totalitarian state

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against all odds