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West Coast Tales: Riveters, Wrecks and Ring-netters - Couverture souple

Weyndling, Walter

 
9781841583464: West Coast Tales: Riveters, Wrecks and Ring-netters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1841583464 ISBN 13 : 9781841583464
Editeur : Birlinn Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Responsible for the sea-worthiness of countless vessels and therefore the lives of their captains and crews, Weyndling's job took him the length of the coast and introduced him to many entertaining characters along the way. West Coast Tales, like Weyndling's first collection of stories Ferry Tales, is a collection of memories from the beginning of his career as an apprentice in a Glasgow shipyard in WW2 to his time working as a ship surveyor on the East and West Coasts of Scotland. Designed throughout with original photographs and drawings, the book offers a comprehensive view over the twentieth-century Scottish boat industry, looking at fishing boats, small craft, ferries, boatyards and shipyards. The dangers of the sea-faring life are also examined in Weyndling's examinations of marine casualties. Although it is a book about boats, it is also a compelling portrait of life on the Western Coast and on the Islands. It is the people whose lives are connected so closely to ship and sea who are most vividly remembered by Weyndling, from taciturn skippers and stubborn captains to East End Londoners turned Islay farmers.
Comic yet moving, West Coast Tales has a gentle and reminiscent tone, perfectly capturing the attitudes of the time whilst taking the reader on a journey through Scotland's boating history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Walter Weyndling was born in Krakow, came to Scotland in 1939 and studied naval architecture at Glasgow University. He was a member of the Admiralty Naval Construction Department during the war and subsequently became a marine surveyor with the Board of Trade, firstly on the east coast, then on the west coast of Scotland. He currently lives in Wiltshire.

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Éditeur
Birlinn Ltd
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1841583464
ISBN 13 
9781841583464
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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