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Author : Paul A. L. Vine
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Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Pleasure Boating in the Victorian Era written by Paul A. L. Vine and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Wenham
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958626
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pleasure Boating on the Thames written by Simon Wenham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country. Simon Wenham's illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.
Author : David Sutcliffe
Publisher : Granta Editions
ISBN 13 : 1857571010
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book The RIB written by David Sutcliffe and published by Granta Editions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Boughey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487116
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Canals written by Joseph Boughey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield's original work.
Author : Neil Wigglesworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135187746
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Social History of English Rowing written by Neil Wigglesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and nurture the sport but who have been forgotten due to their not being associated with the elite of the sport.
Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719037245
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dream of England written by John Taylor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly-illustrated new book explores English society and its relationship to the landscape, as seen through photography and tourism over the last hundred years. All the major tourist venues are covered including Stonenhenge, National Trust houses, the Lake District and Shakespeare country. A wide variety of stunning photographs are included in the book from Victorian pastoral scenes and Emerson's views of Norfolk, to contemporary photography including Martin Parr's wry images of end of the century society ...
Author : Trevor Levere
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682382
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert, 1875-1876 written by Trevor Levere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration. There were hopes that the expedition might find the hypothetical open polar sea and with it the longed-for Northwest Passage, and it did reach the highest northern latitude to date. The Royal Society compiled instructions for the expedition, and selected two full-time naturalists (an unusual naval concession to science), of whom one, Henry Wemyss Feilden, proved a worthy choice. Feilden was a soldier, who fought in most of the wars in his lifetime, including the American Civil War, on the Confederate side. On board HMS Alert, he kept a daily journal, a record important for its scientific content, but also as a view of the expedition as seen by a soldier, revealing admiration and appreciation for his naval colleagues; he performed whatever tasks were given to him, including the rescue of returning sledge parties stricken by scurvy. He also did a remarkably comprehensive job in mapping the geology of Smith Sound; some of his work, on the Cape Rawson Beds, was the most reliable until the 1950s. He was an all-round naturalist, and a particularly fine geologist and ornithologist. He was not just a collector; he pondered the significance of his findings within the context of the best modern science of his day: in zoology, Charles Darwin on evolution; in botany, Hooker on phytogeography, and in geology, Charles Lyell’s system. He illustrated his journal with his own sketches, and also enclosed the printed programmes of popular entertainments held on the ship, and verses for birthdays and sledging (there was a printing press onboard). The journal gives a vigorous impression of a ship’s company well occupied through the winter, then increasingly active in sledging and geographical discovery in spring, before the scurvy-induced decision to head home in the summer of 1876. After his return, Feilden had dealings with many scientists and their institutions, finding homes for and meaning in his collections.
Author : Francesco Vallerani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315398443
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Waterways and the Cultural Landscape written by Francesco Vallerani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant implications for the people who resided within them. This book explores the role of waterways as a form of heritage, culture and sense of place and the potential of this to underpin the development of cultural tourism. With a multidisciplinary approach across the social sciences and humanities, chapters explore how the control and management of water flows are among some of the most significant human activities to transform the natural environment. Based upon a wealth and breadth of European case studies, the book uncovers the complex relationships we have with waterways, the ways that they have been represented over recent centuries and the ways in which they continue to be redefined in different cultural contexts. Contributions recognise not only valuable assets of hydrology that are at the core of landscape management, but also more intangible aspects that matter to people, such as their familiarity, affecting what is understood as the fluvial sense of place. This highly original collection will be of interest to those working in cultural tourism, cultural geography, heritage studies, cultural history, landscape studies and leisure studies.
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book East Bourne Memories of the Victorian Period, 1845-1901 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Vine
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445625946
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Royal Military Canal written by Paul Vine and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 1904-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the waterway and military road from Shorncliffe in Kent to Cliff End in Sussex
