River Orwell - Robert Simper
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River Orwell and River Stour
Author: Robert Simper
Photographs and maps from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modem port of Ipswich and Felixstowe. Unravels the legend of Margaret Catchpole, the smuggler's lass, includes the decline of sailing barges and the rise of the yacht
Records the long battles that Aldeburgh and Slaughden had with the sea and the struggles to keep Southwold Harbour open. Sailing barges and the Aldeburgh cod smacks and the modem vessels trading to Snape. Followed by the rise in recreation, yachting and bird reserves.
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
Author: Robert Simper
Photographs and maps from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modem port of Ipswich and Felixstowe. Unravels the legend of Margaret Catchpole, the smuggler's lass, includes the decline of sailing barges and the rise of the yacht
Records the long battles that Aldeburgh and Slaughden had with the sea and the struggles to keep Southwold Harbour open. Sailing barges and the Aldeburgh cod smacks and the modem vessels trading to Snape. Followed by the rise in recreation, yachting and bird reserves.
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
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