Nick Ardley
Autor de THE MAY FLOWER, A BARGING CHILDHOOD
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Nick Ardley helming a Thames Barge.
Obras de Nick Ardley
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Ardley, Nick
- Nombre legal
- Ardley, Nicholas Timothy
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 12-6-55
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Rochester, Kent, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- The Thames Barge Mayflower (Medway Towns)
Canvey Island, Essex, England, UK
Hadleigh, Essex, England, UK - Educación
- Poplar Technical College
- Organizaciones
- The Society For Sailing Barge Research
The Thames Sailing Barge Trust (TSBT)
Essex Learning Services (Adult Learning Support Assistant)
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (Marine Engineer Officer) - Premios y honores
- 2008 Society of Sailing Barge Research 'Dead Eye' Trophy (Book of the year) for, The May Flower A Barging Childhood.
- Biografía breve
- Born in Rochester on the Medway, a true ‘Man of Kent’; Nick Ardley grew up aboard a Thames ‘spritty’ barge, the Mayflower. After a career as an Engineering Officer in the British Fleets, Nick returned to his origins and began to restore and sail one the few remaining jewels of these sailing barges. The author has located and identified the rotting remains of dozens of these National treasures and has launched the recovery and restoration of many of them through his work in the voluntary organization around the Kent and Essex coast, estuaries and rivers.
Miembros
Reseñas
Mayflower, Mudlarking and Salt Marsh and Mud
Having not only grown up in exactly the same rivers, mud and towns as the author but sailed in similar craft, including on one occasion one of the beautiful queens of a Thames barge he writes about, I am almost inclined to disqualify myself from comment. But I love these books so much I want to encourage others to read and enjoy them too.
Perhaps those who do and still live in the Thames area will then support the author in his long quest to find and identify the remains of this once glorious fleet and even, where possible, to recover and restore them.
More than ‘just’ a sailing books, in this series Nick lays out the history and details of the Thames, the barges and towns along this glorious estuary. Each can be read independently of the others but reading Mayflower – the barge that Nick Ardley grew up on, will give an understanding of his knowledge and passion for the Thames ‘spriitty’.… (más)
Having not only grown up in exactly the same rivers, mud and towns as the author but sailed in similar craft, including on one occasion one of the beautiful queens of a Thames barge he writes about, I am almost inclined to disqualify myself from comment. But I love these books so much I want to encourage others to read and enjoy them too.
Perhaps those who do and still live in the Thames area will then support the author in his long quest to find and identify the remains of this once glorious fleet and even, where possible, to recover and restore them.
More than ‘just’ a sailing books, in this series Nick lays out the history and details of the Thames, the barges and towns along this glorious estuary. Each can be read independently of the others but reading Mayflower – the barge that Nick Ardley grew up on, will give an understanding of his knowledge and passion for the Thames ‘spriitty’.… (más)
Mayflower, Mudlarking and Salt Marsh and Mud
Having not only grown up in exactly the same rivers, mud and towns as the author but sailed in similar craft, including on one occasion one of the beautiful queens of a Thames barge he writes about, I am almost inclined to disqualify myself from comment. But I love these books so much I want to encourage others to read and enjoy them too.
Perhaps those who do and still live in the Thames area will then support the author in his long quest to find and identify the remains of this once glorious fleet and even, where possible, to recover and restore them.
More than ‘just’ a sailing books, in this series Nick lays out the history and details of the Thames, the barges and towns along this glorious estuary. Each can be read independently of the others but reading Mayflower – the barge that Nick Ardley grew up on, will give an understanding of his knowledge and passion for the Thames ‘spritty’.… (más)
Having not only grown up in exactly the same rivers, mud and towns as the author but sailed in similar craft, including on one occasion one of the beautiful queens of a Thames barge he writes about, I am almost inclined to disqualify myself from comment. But I love these books so much I want to encourage others to read and enjoy them too.
Perhaps those who do and still live in the Thames area will then support the author in his long quest to find and identify the remains of this once glorious fleet and even, where possible, to recover and restore them.
More than ‘just’ a sailing books, in this series Nick lays out the history and details of the Thames, the barges and towns along this glorious estuary. Each can be read independently of the others but reading Mayflower – the barge that Nick Ardley grew up on, will give an understanding of his knowledge and passion for the Thames ‘spritty’.… (más)
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 16
- Popularidad
- #679,947
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 6
Having not only grown up in exactly the same rivers, mud and towns as the author but sailed in similar craft, including on one occasion one of the beautiful queens of a Thames barge he writes about, I am almost inclined to disqualify myself from comment. But I love these books so much I want to encourage others to read and enjoy them too.
Perhaps those who do and still live in the Thames area will then support the author in his long quest to find and identify the remains of this once glorious fleet and even, where possible, to recover and restore them.
More than ‘just’ a sailing books, in this series Nick lays out the history and details of the Thames, the barges and towns along this glorious estuary. Each can be read independently of the others but reading Mayflower – the barge that Nick Ardley grew up on, will give an understanding of his knowledge and passion for the Thames ‘spriitty’.… (más)