Book search - Does anyone have a copy of this for lease, loan or sale?

[ropesfish]

Does anyone have a copy of "Hurricanes of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, 1492 - 1800 by Millas and Pardue" that they would be willing to sell or otherwise barter away? I can't bring myself to pay the $135.00 that Alan Workman wants for his copy right now...yes. I am cheap..I mean thrifty. The St Lucie County library has a copy for a weeks loan, but this is a research book, not bedtime reading.
Let me know.
Thanks!

 

[SADS 669]

You cheap skinflint!!

I'll go Halfy with you if you like.......

 

[ARC]

Does anyone have a copy of "Hurricanes of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, 1492 - 1800 by Millas and Pardue" that they would be willing to sell or otherwise barter away? I can't bring myself to pay the $135.00 that Alan Workman wants for his copy right now...yes. I am cheap..I mean thrifty. The St Lucie County library has a copy for a weeks loan, but this is a research book, not bedtime reading.
Let me know.
Thanks!

Check out from library and photocopy every page you did not get a chance to read in the weeks time. :P

 

[ropesfish]

AARC said:
"Check out from library and photocopy every page you did not get a chance to read in the weeks time. :P"

Well...it would sure be easier to just buy one. It is hard for me to read those double-page scans.

 

[ARC]

OR... check out... return in a week... then check out again ...

Repeat as necessary... besides... a trip to the library is never "a waist of time". heh

Can always find something worth looking up/at.

 

[ARC]

Ropes are you going into the study of hurricanes ?

OR are you looking for certain things in the said book ?

 

[EPWright]

I'm in with SADS. How many copies are in circulation in the US ? I'll chip in too!!!

 

[EPWright]

AARC. Great Idea. Hurricanes and lost vessels. Sound like a recipe for success. I have a question for you all. My history teacher in High School had a brother who once upon a time created a list for Billy Donovan of all the ships existing in the world prior to ww2 and following the completion of the war. This gentleman has passed. Any input or ideas ?? I am searching as SADS knows for lost ships of WW2 to include the Bermuda Triangle. Finding these lost ships is the fortune of a true treasure hunter, eh ??

 

[ropesfish]

AARC inquired:
"Ropes are you going into the study of hurricanes ?
OR are you looking for certain things in the said book ?"

I hear Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel needs a stats guy for the upcoming hurricane season. I have to study up for the interview.

Virtually all of the historic shipwrecks from the Age of Sail in this hemisphere were caused by weather (like hurricanes) forcing the ship to run aground. Seems logical to me that understanding the history of said hurricanes would be a good idea. >
"This book, which looks very much like a PhD dissertation, is a report issued under contract to the US Weather Bureau. It is a scholarly work detailing the Caribbean hurricanes during the 15th through the 19th century"
I am also hunting Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
and Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
as well as maybe The Great Hurricane of 1780: The Story of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricane of the Caribbean and the Americas
but all of these can be bought through Alibris for a few bucks.
I have diesel fuel to buy...I'm just trying to allocate my dwindling resources as best I can.

 

[ropesfish]

I'm in with SADS. How many copies are in circulation in the US ? I'll chip in too!!!

There a couple of good copies advertised for sale in the US and another in England from $135 to $175. I will likely go to the library down the road and have them borrow the St Lucie copy for me so I can judge whether it is worthy of the investment. It is fairly common in lending libraries from what I can see.

Speaking of lists of shipwrecks...there is a surprisingly large list here on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_of_the_United_States

 

[ivan salis]

when "known" lost treasure fleets and known hurricane strike "areas" from the records are co mingled the likely area of ship loss can be plotted out -- often the old records of ship loss simply say -- lost on the coast of Florida -- if thru hurricane strike area records one can know where they hit ..one can increase the chances of finding the areas of the sunken near shore treasure ships .... ships that got trapped near shore as they "dead reckoned" their way up the coast of Florida..which pre 1750 was the common method of doing things ...

once the sailors could use accurate time pieces at sea to figger out latitude they no longer had to "coast hug" to keep track of where they were ......the use of accurate time pieces in deep waters off shore , allowed they to track their location .... this kept them from being "trapped" close to shore by rapid developing storms and hurricanes which could easily occur while using the old fashioned "dead reckoning" method

 

[SADS 669]

Sent you an email Ropes, get the book, land the interview and we'll all share the bill......ha ha

Seriously, go get the job!!

 

[ropesfish]

Sent you an email Ropes, get the book, land the interview and we'll all share the bill......ha ha

Seriously, go get the job!!

Done deal, compadre.

 

[SADS 669]

Book, Job, or both? I'll donate my share to the "Black book fund" at the cookout.......

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I looked for the book on that Internet Archive site, and found no links.

https://archive.org/

 

[Boatlode]

Yes, I have a copy. No, it is not for sale.

But if you ask me nice I might look up information in it for you.

 

[ropesfish]

Yes, I have a copy. No, it is not for sale.

But if you ask me nice I might look up information in it for you.

I appreciate that, sir, and may yet take you up on it, but I am presently negotiating for a copy.
With the disjointed flight-of-ideas reality of what I loosely call 'research' I generally end up with a big pile of books on the desk that are adorned with post-it notes, a couple of computer monitors with 42 tabs open and a dead cell phone battery.

 

[astralea1692]

lol, you actually named a book, I don't have. FYI, if you run it thru Barnes and Nobles, they also run used books of same, like old libray rents, booksellers/stores even Goodwill's. you may get lucky n find it a lot cheaper. good luck!

 

[jeff of pa]

Does anyone have a copy of "Hurricanes of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, 1492 - 1800 by Millas and Pardue" that they would be willing to sell or otherwise barter away? I can't bring myself to pay the $135.00 that Alan Workman wants for his copy right now...yes. I am cheap..I mean thrifty. The St Lucie County library has a copy for a weeks loan, but this is a research book, not bedtime reading.
Let me know.
Thanks!

do what I do.
take the book out. and go somewhere where they have a copy machine & charge 5 Cents per Page.

it took me about an hour & 2 2" wide 3 Ring Binders for

627 1 sided pages that are about twice their original size​

for about $35 bucks.
& easy for research. Because it's not an Original copy. Notes all over it don't Spite me

May take an hour, But you can make an extra Large easy to read Print Copy.
for about half that.

heck these days, if you have a Digital Camera you could probably make a disk
like a friend did with a 19th century county Atlas

 

[Jolly Mon]

I am a real tightwad.
I take my 5 dollar thrift store tripod and my digital camera and photograph every page in which I have an interest, even if it is an entire book.
Once you get yourself set-up, it is a simple matter to photo a double page spread every 5 seconds or so.
You can photograph an entire 500 page book in under 30 minutes.
The beauty of this is that you can also photograph reference books inside your library of choice.
I just save the files to an SD card. You can save a gaggle of books on one 16 GB card.
Viewing the files in Windows Photo Viewer allows you to zoom in and out and flip pages pretty effortlessly.

Pages come out looking like this: