Gill Hoffs' new book, The Sinking of the RMS Tayleur, grabbed me out of bed last night like a storm. There are so many questions surrounding the sinking and the individual fates of the emigrants aboard the ship--tragedies and triumphs so compellingly and respectfully portrayed by the author. Gill Hoffs sets the scene generously with striking, often unsettling detail; and her descriptions of mid-nineteenth-century ship travel and the surrounding social conditions are convincingly well researched. These things alone would have kept me reading, but the jewels of this book are certainly the voices. The author resurrects the passengers of the RMS Tayleur and their stories in an approachable style that also serves as a suiting memorial to this tragedy. From the sailing and sinking to the ensuing inquest, each moment comes alive through dozens of eye-witness accounts. Hoffs has compliled a thorough and thoroughly engaging multi-voiced work. And I'm so glad Hoffs made the decision to include so.. Read more
Christopher Allen, Imustbeoff.com
Gill Hoffs' new book, The Sinking of the RMS Tayleur, grabbed me out of bed last night like a storm. There are so many questions surrounding the sinking and the individual fates of the emigrants aboard the ship--tragedies and triumphs so compellingly and respectfully portrayed by the author. Gill Hoffs sets the scene generously with striking, often unsettling detail; and her descriptions of mid-nineteenth-century ship travel and the surrounding social conditions are convincingly well researched. These things alone would have kept me reading, but the jewels of this book are certainly the voices. The author resurrects the passengers of the RMS Tayleur and their stories in an approachable style that also serves as a suiting memorial to this tragedy. From the sailing and sinking to the ensuing inquest, each moment comes alive through dozens of eye-witness accounts. Hoffs has compliled a thorough and thoroughly engaging multi-voiced work. And I'm so glad Hoffs made the decision to include so.. Read more
Christopher Allen, Imustbeoff.com
This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013
This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013
A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly
A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly
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The Sinking of RMS Tayleur
'The moment they fell into the water the waves caught them and dashed them violently against the rocks, and the survivors on shore could perceive the unfortunate creatures...struggling amidst the waves, and one by one sinking under them.' (Hereford Times, 28 January 1854) The wrecking of the RMS Tayleur made headlines nearly 60 years before the Titanic.… Read more...
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A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted, as well as their magnificent liners, the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life on board. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on posters and postcards to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was… Read more...
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A Century of Sea Travel
This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences, mirrored here in words and pictures. The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by, glimpses of steamship travel through the years. In memoirs and… Read more...
