Author Results for Bill Jones
Book Review-‘One of Howard’s: The life and times of John Howard, Maldon shipwright 1849–1915 and a history of shipbuilding in Maldon, by D. Patient,
On 30 April 1859, the Illustrated London News commented that ‘there is not much room for the exhibition of naval architecture in a sailing barge’. This was a common perception of vessels which were built as load-carrying workhorses for short sea and river transport, and which were an everyday sight, often in large numbers, in […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
Book Review: ‘Strange Vernaculars: How eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English’ by Bill Jones
English in the eighteenth century was being invaded by ‘alien’ languages and dialects, and it is these which Janet Sorensen analyses in Strange Vernaculars. She focuses on three ‘languages’ in her study: the ‘cant’ of the criminal underworld, the provincial dialects of, especially, the labouring classes, and finally the ‘nautical jargon’ of sailors. It is […] Read More
Filed under: Eighteenth Century
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Miscellaneous
Book Review – ‘Polar Mariner: Beyond the limits in Antarctica’ by Bill Jones
Captain Thomas Woodfield had a remarkable career at sea. After a year at the Warsash School of Navigation, then under the command of the redoubtable Captain Wakeford, he served an apprenticeship in merchant ships, until in the early 1950s he obtained a junior officer’s posting to an Antarctic research ship, the Royal Research Ship Shackleton. There […] Read More
Filed under: Post WW2 | Twentieth Century | Antarctic
Subjects include: Biography | Science & Exploration | Ship Handling & Seamanship
Book Review-‘Chasing a Dream: The exploration of the Imaginary Pacific’ by J. Dunmore
John Dunmore has impeccable credentials for authorship of this volume. A prolific author of over 30 volumes, including biographies and journals of significant Pacific explorers such as Jean-Francois de La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Surville and Louis de Bougainville, and the recipient of many awards including the Legion d’Honneur for his contribution to French scholarship, he […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Early Modern) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Science & Exploration
Book Review-‘British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850’ edited by A. Schmidt
Spectacle and melodrama have always played a significant part in popular entertainment, and the sea offers an impressive range of opportunity for evoking strong reactions and emotions among spectators, readers and audiences from classical and biblical times, through Viking sagas to Shakespeare’s Tempest and on to contemporary disaster movies such as Krakatoa: East of Java […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Art & Music