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The Sailing Frigate
Robert Gardiner
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Description for The Sailing Frigate
Paperback. Over 100 models in stunning full-colour photographs. Close-ups, details and thematic spreads for variety and visual interestIn-depth captioning, annotations and an authoritative text. Num Pages: 128 pages, 130 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JWMV2; TRLD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 186. .
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. This book is the first of a series which ... Read more
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. This book is the first of a series which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848322950
SKU
V9781848322950
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-7
About Robert Gardiner
ROBERT GARDINER is the author of three books on sailing cruisers, including Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars, published in 2000 and re-released in paperback in 2006. His last book, a new and enlarged edition of Warships of the Napoleonic Era, was published by Seaforth in 2011.
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