Ship of the Line - Brian Lavery

Ship of the Line

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
128 Seiten
2015
Seaforth Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84832-214-1 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Over 100 models in stunning full-colour photographs incuding close-ups, details and thematic spreads for variety and visual interest. In-depth captioning, annotations and an authoritative text.
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. The Ship of the Line is the second of a new series that takes selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types - in this case, the evolution of the ship of the line, the capital ship of its day, and the epitome of British seapower during its heyday from 1650-1850. This period too coincided with the golden age of ship modelling. Each volume depicts a wide range of models, all shown in full colour, 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, and the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing a unique form of technical history. The series is of particular interest to ship modellers, but all those with an enthusiasm for the ship design and development in the sailing era will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.

BRIAN LAVERY is one of the country's leading maritime historians and the author of such bestselling works as Nelson's Navy. He was for many years curator at the National Maritime Museum and while there co-authored the authoritative work on the NMM's models, Ship Models: Their Purpose & Development from 1650 to the Present.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.2015
Zusatzinfo 150 colour photos
Verlagsort Barnsley
Sprache englisch
Maße 186 x 286 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Kreatives Gestalten
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Schiffe
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-84832-214-3 / 1848322143
ISBN-13 978-1-84832-214-1 / 9781848322141
Zustand Neuware
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