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Lifeboat John R Stilgoe

Name: Lifeboat John R Stilgoe
SKU: BELL-50391516
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (68 reviews)

SKU: BELL-50391516

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Lifeboat John R Stilgoe instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 23.66 MB

Pages: 350

Author: John R. Stilgoe

ISBN: 9780813922218, 0813922216

Language: English

Year: 2003

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Lifeboat John R Stilgoe by John R. Stilgoe 9780813922218, 0813922216 instant download after payment.

How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O’Brian, Crabwalk by Günter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.