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Cargando... The Fighting Temeraire : The Battle of Trafalgar and the Ship That Inspired J.M.W. Turner's Most Beloved Paintingpor Sam Willis
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Simply excellent. A wonderful book about a magnificent ship and the masterful painting of her. ( ) A good history inspired by Turner's 1839 painting of the H.M.S. Temeraire being towed to the break up yard by a steam tug. The history covers the years from 1759 (The Seven Year's War) till 1815 (The Battle of Trafalgar). Reads like a novel in many places, because Wiliis doesn't let history get in the way of a good story. A good non-fiction book can make you feel as if you're reading a narrative with added history, this book does that incredibly well. Willis charts the history of the two ships to carry the Temeraire and how they inspired the British nation and fit into the naval history of the 1700 and 1800s. Each chapter is headed the something Temeraire and takes the reader into different eras of history to explain the power of these great ships. I recommend this book to anyone interested in naval history or art history. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: The extraordinary story of the mighty Temeraire, the ship behind J. M. W. Turner's iconic painting The H.M.S. Temeraire, one of Britains most illustrious fighting ships, is known to millions through J.M.W. Turners masterpiece, The Fighting Temeraire (1839), which portrays the battle-scarred veteran of Britain's wars with Napoleonic France. In this evocative new volume, Sam Willis tells the extraordinary story of the vessel behind the painting. This tale of two ships spans the heyday of the age of sail: the climaxes of both the Seven Years' War (1756â??63) and the Napoleonic Wars (1798â??1815). Filled with richly evocative detail, and narrated with the pace and gusto of a master storyteller, The Fighting Temeraire is an enthralling and deeply satisfying work of narrative history No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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