SHIPWRECKS.
by FOWLES**, JOHN - text by:
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- ISBN 10
- 0224010530
- ISBN 13
- 9780224010535
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It seems inconceivable that the ships illustrated in this book,with their air of permanence,of beauty allied with strength,should have ever met with destruction.Yet the sea has claimed them. The coasts of the Scilly Isles and West Cornwall have probably proved more lethal than any comparable area in the world.
Four generations of the Gibson family of the Scillies,starting with John Gibson in the 1860's,have recorded the last moments
of the ships,great and small,beautiful and utilitarian,which have met their end on these treacherous shoals and rocks.This book is a selection of the best of their photographs - superb visual epitaphs of maritime disaster which show the Gibsons to be neglected masters of the camera.
John Fowles's fascinating Introduction sets the shipwreck - together with the ancient Cornish 'industry' of wrecking - in its historical and psychological perspective,and the detailed notes on each ship and its final days,compiled with the aid of Rex Cowan's impressive knowledge of the area and it's history,form a haunting adjunct to the photographs.
'Shipwreck',then,is a book which will be a source of endless pleasure for all - both as a moving evocation of the great ships of the past,and as an example of the photographer's art unrivalled in its field.
Since the 17thC Gibsons have lived on the Scilly Isles.In the early 1860's John Gibson,a seaman,taught himself between voyages to use the very recently invented camera.By 1866 John had quit the sea and set up as a professional,his son, Alexander,a self-taught scholar,joining him in the business a few years later at the age of fourteen.
It was Alexander who brought a perfectionism to the arrangement of his pictures and often with great skill retouched his plates.Alexander's son,James,acquired all the shipwreck plates after a quarrel which resulted in his father retiring to the mainland.John Gibson died in 1920 at the age of ninety-three; and now James's son Frank carries on the tradition of photographing the sea and recording the many dramatic shipwrecks that still occur around those menacing coasts.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- SHIPWRECKS.
- Author
- FOWLES**, JOHN - text by:
- Illustrator
- illus with shipwreck b/w photographs.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- NFINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,slim,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224010530
- ISBN 13
- 9780224010535
- Publisher
- LONDON.CAPE,1974.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1979
- Keywords
- q52.NAUTICAL.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,slim,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0224010530.Shipwrecks_b/w photographs_Gibson's of Scilly Isles.Photography_Scillies_1860_John Gibson.Cornwall_maritime shipping_wreckers.The Collector.The Magus.The French Lieutenant'
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