Nancollas, Tom
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241434154
- author:
- Nancollas, Tom
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 13 x 1.9 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Transport, Ships & Shipbuilding,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Tom Nancollas' The Ship Asunder is a moving and original history that weaves together the stories of eleven relics that tell the story of Britain at sea. From the Bronze Age to the early 20th century, this book explores the country's maritime history, tracing the evolution of its seafaring tradition through the vessels that shaped it.
Each of the eleven vessels, scattered across the country's creeks and coastlines, illuminates a distinct phase of Britain's adventures on the waves. The book brings to life the people, places, and vessels that made a maritime nation, including great naval architects and unsung shipwrights, fishermen and merchants, shipwrecks and superstition, pilgrimage, trade and war.
The Ship Asunder celebrates the richness of Britain's seafaring tradition in all its glory and tragedy, triumph and disaster, and asks how we might best memorialize it as it vanishes from our shores.
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