Wooden Warship Construction
A History in Ship Models
Seiten
2017
Seaforth Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4738-9480-8 (ISBN)
Seaforth Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4738-9480-8 (ISBN)
Over 100 models in stunning full-colour photographs . Close-ups, details and thematic spreads for variety and visual interest
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or by the shipbuilders themselves. They range from the mid-seventeenth-century to the present day and represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, these models offer more detail than even the most detailed plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that the finest marine painter could not. This book takes a selection of the best models from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of wooden shipbuilding to describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity. For this purpose, it reproduces a large number of photos, all in full color, and includes many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the illustrations into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history.
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or by the shipbuilders themselves. They range from the mid-seventeenth-century to the present day and represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, these models offer more detail than even the most detailed plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that the finest marine painter could not. This book takes a selection of the best models from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of wooden shipbuilding to describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity. For this purpose, it reproduces a large number of photos, all in full color, and includes many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the illustrations into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history.
BRIAN LAVERY is one of the countrys leading maritime historians and the author of more than thirty books, including the highly successful Nelsons Navy and Empire of the Seas. He was for many years a curator at the National Maritime Museum and while there became an expert on its models, producing the definitive work on the collection.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.06.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 130 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Barnsley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 184 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 410 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Modellbau | |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4738-9480-8 / 1473894808 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4738-9480-8 / 9781473894808 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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