Roger Paine

Ships and Sealing Wax and Many Things (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Roger Paine, retired Navy commander and former secretary to the trustees of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, has authored a collection of true stories about fascinating people and places. If you have an interest in the sea, you can learn about how the cells in one of Scotland's biggest prisons were emptied to provide crews for merchant ships in World War II, or how the father of a young musician playing in the palm court of the Titanic was sent a bill for 75p for new buttons on his uniform jacket two weeks after he drowned. In his landlubberly tales, Paine gives a guided tour around more than twenty ancient village churches in southern England. Wonder at how a gruesome collection of human skulls provides an attraction to visitors in a parish church, and discover how a young girl waited in vain for her lover from the vicarage next door and eventually died of a broken heart. Spend springtime with Robert Browning, summer with William Morris, autumn with John Keats, and Christmas with Kenneth Grahame-and find out what inspired these poets to write as memorably as they did. This delightful treasure trove of stories will keep you amused, astounded, and warmed in equal measure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penmore Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781946409171
• Artikelnr.: 49538876

Autorenporträt

Roger Paine has been writing stories, poems and plays from an early age. When sixteen years old he left school in Leicester, England, and joined the Royal Navy. Over the next twenty-eight years he rose from ordinary sailor in bell-bottom trousers to gold-laced senior officer in the rank of Commander. He served in a wide variety of ships, from aircraft carriers, various frigates and destroyers, to mine counter-measures vessels, a tank-landing ship and the navy's ice patrol ship. He visited ports in nearly every country in the world. Now a full-time writer, he regularly contributes book reviews, theatre reviews and features to magazines, newspapers and journals on subjects ranging from maritime topics to historic village churches and well-known poets. Many of these articles are included in this his third book. He lives in an eighteenth century cottage, crammed with books, paintings and naval memorabilia, on the edge of a medieval churchyard in rural Sussex.