הוצאת National Maritime Museum
הספרים של הוצאת National Maritime Museum
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Drawings from Edward Lear’s Egyptian travels are gathered and matched with travelogues in this never-before-published collection. Lear—famous for his nonsense poetry and prose as well as his landscape paintings—traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East... |
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Though the thrilling age of regularly seeing large square-rigged ships in full sail has passed, this gripping narrative is a classic overview of these fascinating ships, written by an author who knew them inside out. This book is a step-by-step introduction t... |
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Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748-1857
מאת Amy Miller Coinciding with the "Sailor Chic" exhibition at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), this book explores naval identity, contemporary fashion, and masculinity in three essays and features newly commissioned art that fully illustrates the NMM’s uniform collection. Personal papers, diaries, ficti...
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In a world that witnessed the emergence of automatic timeballs, telegraph time signals, the speaking clock, and the BBC’s “six pips,” one family provided the hours and minutes to paying customers across London for more than 100 years using a pocketwatch name... |
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First written in 1858, this thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy, young French girl who was kidnapped at sea. After setting sail for California in 1855, Fanny's boat was overtaken and she was captured by Chinese pirates who held her hostage and demanded a...
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