The starting point for this book was my own experience as a young cadet with P&O in the early 1960s. During bridge watches at night,
Jane Austen and Brothers at Sea Jane Austen’s life and work often sprang into my mind while I was writing Children at Sea. I imagined
Children at Sea: Lives Shaped by the Waves by Vyvyen Brendon On the Road in Fact and Fiction
Black Lives Matter In preparation for a recent book-signing at the Falcon Hotel in Bude I thought back over my own connection with Cornwall and
During the six years I spent on this book I never ceased to enjoy delving into the evidence of lives shaped by early sea voyages.
I decided to present my subject not as a general history but rather as a collection of life stories set in Georgian and Victorian times,
I had five reasons for wanting to write this book. 1. The photograph shows me, my brother and my cousin beside the sea in Devon
A bit of background as to why I wrote the book My maternal grandfather, Alexander Kinsey, was one of thirteen children born and raised in
MALTA George Cross Island ‘Sleeping or waking Malta is always in my thoughts’, so said Admiral Lord Nelson during the Napoleonic Wars. With the rise
Almost everyone knows about the great land battles of history – Hastings, Waterloo, Stalingrad, Gettysburg and so on. But strangely – and perhaps disconcertingly for
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