Voyage Around East Anglia - Robert Simper
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Voyage Around East Anglia
Author: Robert Simper
"This is the story of many different trips around the rivers and coast of East Anglia. It is also a voyage in time, because sometimes we look back into the past and see how things used to be. It isjust a brief account of events on the East Coast, over a period of about fifty years, that have caught my attention.
So many people have moved into East Anglia that the correct pronunciation of many words has changed or even new names have been invented. Change is always inevitable, but 1 have endeavoured to record at least some of the true local pronunciations. Most of these place names were being pronounced long before they were written down. Now so many are in danger of being lost.
Many thanks for additional information on fishing from John Winter of Southwold and Dick Graham of Bawdsey and from Bruce Page on the Royal Navy at Shingle Street. On sailing barges I have to thank James Lawrence, Pat Fisher, Willie Williams, Barry Pearce and Cohn Fox and on the Thames, Paddy O'Driscoll.
My wife Pearl has, as always, given me help on which direction to go. My son Jonathan has read it through and made good suggestions. That is not an easy task because I have a tendency not to listen to good advice. Diana McMillan has also edited and guided the finished work and my daughter Caroline Southernwood designed the map.
This book is really a follow on from In Search of Sail, about which several people said 'why didn't you do more about the East Coast?' Well now I have"
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
"This is the story of many different trips around the rivers and coast of East Anglia. It is also a voyage in time, because sometimes we look back into the past and see how things used to be. It isjust a brief account of events on the East Coast, over a period of about fifty years, that have caught my attention.
So many people have moved into East Anglia that the correct pronunciation of many words has changed or even new names have been invented. Change is always inevitable, but 1 have endeavoured to record at least some of the true local pronunciations. Most of these place names were being pronounced long before they were written down. Now so many are in danger of being lost.
Many thanks for additional information on fishing from John Winter of Southwold and Dick Graham of Bawdsey and from Bruce Page on the Royal Navy at Shingle Street. On sailing barges I have to thank James Lawrence, Pat Fisher, Willie Williams, Barry Pearce and Cohn Fox and on the Thames, Paddy O'Driscoll.
My wife Pearl has, as always, given me help on which direction to go. My son Jonathan has read it through and made good suggestions. That is not an easy task because I have a tendency not to listen to good advice. Diana McMillan has also edited and guided the finished work and my daughter Caroline Southernwood designed the map.
This book is really a follow on from In Search of Sail, about which several people said 'why didn't you do more about the East Coast?' Well now I have"
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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