Author: N. S. Robins Publisher: Silver Link ISBN: 9781857943184 Category : Paddle steamers Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Tells the story of Thames pleasure steamers that begins in 1814, when the first steamer arrived in the river to ply her trade. This title uses period photographs, handbills to provide the full story of the boats that came out in the summer and flitted about, leading to their nickname of 'Thames butterfly boats'.
Author: Andrew Gladwell Publisher: ISBN: 9781848686946 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
The period from the 1920s could be considered the Golden Age of pleasure steamers on the Thames and Medway. After the rigours of war, the fleets of the Belle Steamers, General Steam Navigation Co. and the New Medway Steam Packet Co. were once again busy with trade. Some of the ships had failed to return from war duties and new builds saw the fleets updated. Motor ships had begun to take over from the venerable paddlers which had sailed the rivers for decades. Golden Eagle, Crested Eagle, Royal Daffodil and the Medway are among the ships shown in the book. The steamers took Londoners away on their holidays and on day trips to the resorts of Southend, Clacton, Ramsgate and Margate as well as further afield to France and along the South Coast. After a resurgence at the end of the Second World War, by the late 1960s traffic had dwindled and many ships were sold or scrapped. Andrew Gladwell brings together a superb selection of images of the Thames and Medway pleasure steamers, with many illustrations of the ships and the piers they served.
Author: Simon Wenham Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0750958626 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 233
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THE RIVER THAMES above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country.Simon Wenham’s illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.
Author: Andrew Gladwell Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445624125 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
Evoking memories of the steamers that once took thousands on their trips to the coastal resorts of Kent and Essex, Andrew Gladwell brings together a fascinating selection of images and ephemera of these now-lost vessels.
Author: Jan Baetens Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316771938 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1315
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110784459 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our senses in multiple ways. Because literary experiences are embedded in, and enabled by, media, the book focuses on literature as a changing combination of material and immaterial features. The principal agents of this history are no longer genres, authors, and texts but configurations of media and technologies. In telling the story of these combinations from prehistory to the present, Ingo Berensmeyer distinguishes between three successive dominants of media usage that have shaped literary history: performance, representation, and connection. Using English literature as a test case for a long view of media history, this book combines an unusual bird’s eye view across periods with illuminating readings of key texts. It will prove an invaluable resource for teaching and for independent study in English or comparative literature and media studies.
Author: Andrew Gladwell
Author: N. S. Robins
Author: Andrew Gladwell
Author: Andrew Gladwell
Author: Andrew Gladwell
Author: Simon Wenham
Author: Andrew Gladwell
Author: Jan Baetens
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
Author: Nick Robins