The British Seafarer ~ Mason, Greenhill & Craig

Very good condition: some marks and wear to the cover, corners and edges, a corner crease, a crease on the bottom back cover. Previous owner's ex libris sticker on endpapers.

About the book:
The book of the major BBC Radio 4 series.

The world of the sea conjures up many powerful images in our minds — images of beauty, danger, endurance, fear, skill, courage and footloose adventure. Yet the world of the seafarer has always been very much a world on its own, not easily communicating its experience to those who live on shore.

 In this vividly illustrated and highly original book, which accompanies the BBC Radio 4 series The British Seafarer, the Producer of the series (Mason), the Director of the British National Maritime Museum (Greenhill) and a distinguished maritime historian (Craig) have recreated the seafarer's world in terms of his own experience rather than the imagination of others. The British Seafarer is a mosaic of what the seafarer actually saw, and what he actually thought about it, expressed in his own words. Whether the subject be the ice caverns of the Antarctic or the boozy boarding-houses of Liverpool, the spending sprees of Elizabethan foremastmen or the hairbreadth escapes of North Sea divers, the things actually seen and said are as fascinating as any yo-ho-ho-ery but often very different.

This is an ideal and stimulating book for anyone of any age who is interested in the ways of the sea and the seafarer.

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