Category Archives: Travel Guides
Safety of Navigation: Implementing SOLAS Chapter V 2002: 2014
The Safety of Navigation, implementing SOLAS – Chapter V has been prepared to help ship-owners, masters, crews and industry to understand and comply with the SOLAS Regulations and offers practical guidance on how they should be implemented.It is important that all parties fully understand the requirements of Chapter V and the associated documents and recognise
Life-Saving Signal Card Pack: 2014
Pack of 10, two-sided A5 cards depict internationally-agreed (ICAO/IAMSAR) life-saving signals to be used by ships or persons in distress when communicating with lifesaving stations, maritime rescue units and aircraft engaged in search and rescue operations.The MCA encourages all organisations concerned with small craft to ensure that their members are made aware of the international
Life-Saving Signals and Shipboard Safety (A3 Poster): 2014
This A3 poster depicts internationally-agreed (ICAO/IAMSAR) life-saving signals to be used by ships or persons in distress when communicating with lifesaving stations, maritime rescue units and aircraft engaged in search and rescue operations.The MCA encourages all organisations concerned with small craft to ensure that their members are made aware of the international life-saving signals, and
Merchant Shipping Notices Consolidated to 31 July 2015 SUPERCEDED
The consolidated to 31 July 2015 edition incorporates the three series of Merchant Shipping Notices (MSNs), Marine Guidance Notes (MGNs) and Marine Information Notes (MINs).These notices publicise to the shipping and fishing industries important safety, pollution prevention and other relevant information.
The Ship Captain`s Medical Guide – Edition 23
The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use on vessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor, on board. It provides assistance and direction for crew members when it becomes necessary for them to assess and treat trauma and medical illness.For the 23rd edition, the guide has been comprehensively rewritten,
Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen: Amendment 1, October 2016
Amendment 1 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (COSWP) 2015 provides updated safety signs and a new chapter on Ships Serving Offshore Renewables.COSWP provides guidance on improving health and safety on board vessels and articulates how statutory obligations should be fulfilled. The Code details the regulatory framework for health and safety
Merchant Shipping Notices Consolidated to September 2017
The consolidated to September 2017 edition incorporates the three series of Merchant Shipping Notices (MSNs), Marine Guidance Notes (MGNs) and Marine Information Notes (MINs).These notices publicise to the shipping and fishing industries important safety, pollution prevention and other relevant information.MSNs are used to convey mandatory information that must be complied with under UK legislation. These
Amendment 2 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (2017)
Amendment 2 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers (COSWP) 2015 Edition provides new information on sunglasses, the risk from sharps, solid carbon dioxide, and safe access to small craft.COSWP provides guidance on improving health and safety on board vessels and articulates how statutory obligations should be fulfilled. The Code details the
Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers – 2015 edition inc Amendments 1 & 2
This Code is published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and endorsed by the National Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Committee, UK Chamber of Shipping, Nautilus International and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) as best practice guidance for improving health and safety on board ship.It is intended primarily for
Wise Children
This title is presented with an introduction by Ali Smith. A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter`s witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a
What am I Doing Here?
What Am I Doing Here was the last of his books to be published during Bruce Chatwin`s short but full lifetime, a 1989 collection of profiles, essays and autobiographical travel stories containing, in Salman Rushdie`s words, `so many of its author`s best anecdotes, his choicest performances`. Drawing on experiences such as his trip to Benin,
The Songlines
The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account, Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth of Australia seeking to find
Utz
Bruce Chatwin`s bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he is not allowed
Mr Norris Changes Trains
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise
Memoirs of a Geisha
This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan`s dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. A young peasant girl is sold as servant
Grace Notes
Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna – a young composer – remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. She remembers a more innocent time, when the Loyalists
Black Athena : Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.
Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth century – chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilisation was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers–or
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight,
Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a
