Afloat: Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray - Couverture rigide

Gange, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0008413584 ISBN 13 : 9780008413583

Editeur : William Collins, 2026

Synopsis

'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNON

Join David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.

These small boats outnumber decked ships by at least fifty to one. Yet almost all history writing is about big boats. This is a strange misrepresentation of maritime history that this book seeks to put right. From Ireland and Shetland to the Faroes and across to Greenland, Newfoundland, the US and the Caribbean, Árdras is the story of eight journeys in search of ocean-going rowed and paddled boats.

Gange, an award-winning historian, joins community pilgrimages to tiny islands on their saints’ days, and races and regattas that express revivals of commitment to local boats and the community ideals they sustained. Along the way he encounters whales, sharks and icebergs – as well as journeys beneath skies filled, from horizon to horizon, with tens of thousands of seabirds.

Small traditional boats fulfil roles in their communities unlike any other supposedly inanimate things. Often treated as living members of the family, with minds and lives of their own, they’ve been essential to many cultures’ ways of living with the seascapes that surround them. This gorgeous and lyrical book offers not only a journey into the past, but a vision of how these ways of life might inform our futures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Gange was born in the Peak District. He is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham and has published history books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Oneworld Publications. He has appeared on BBC2 and Smithsonian television as well as at the Hay Literary Festival and in the TLS. His writing as published nature writing and photography in various books and magazines. Recently, he held a research fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

His book The Frayed Atlantic Edge was collective winner of the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the Wainwright.

www.mountaincoastriver.blogspot.co.uk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0008413584
• ISBN 13: 9780008413583
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: HarperCollins Publishers, Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande