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Wooden Warship Construction de Brian Lavery

Wooden Warship Construction

Autor Brian Lavery
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2023
A new paperback edition of a now well-established work. Close-ups, details and thematic spreads that shed unique light on the process of warship contruction. In-depth captioning, annotations and an authoritative text.
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ISBN-13: 9781399024853
ISBN-10: 139902485X
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 130 colour photos
Dimensiuni: 184 x 241 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.

Descriere

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve.

This book takes a selection of the best models to both describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity from the beginning of the 18th century to the end of wooden shipbuilding. For this purpose it reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full colour, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, which can be shown far more clearly than described.

Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. This new and affordable paperback edition will appeal to naval historians and model makers everywhere. 'Students of naval history will find this book invaluable for understanding how Great Britain maintained its maritime pre-eminence through the long eighteenth century, while those looking to understand and to revive ancient crafts have a comprehensive, readily intelligible, and lavishly illustrated guidebook.

Brian Lavery has demonstrated that the printed book is as flexible and as user-friendly a medium as the tablet and the television' Australian Naval Institute
 

 

    Notă biografică

    Brian Lavery is one of the Great Britain's leading maritime historians and the author of more than thirty books, including the highly successful Nelson's Navy. He was for many years a curator at the National Maritime Museum and while there became an expert on its models, producing the definitive work on the collection. His recent books on the ages of sail are Anson's Navy and Royal Yachts Under Sail.