Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Shipwrecks'
Shipwrecks and holiday reading
If you'd like to continue the literary shipwreck theme we started with December's item of the month, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has recently published some more online books with a shipwreck adventure theme. There's quite a chronological range,...
Posted by Renee on December 18, 2009 11:34 AM
William Falconer's The Shipwreck
December's item of the month is somewhat hard to categorise: part fiction, part autobiography and part instructional guide for sailors, William Falconer's poem The Shipwreck is a must-read for Patrick O'Brian fans. Fair enough, there's no Jack Aubrey character -...
Posted by Renee on December 9, 2009 9:24 AM
The Mary Rose meets the synchrotron
Last Friday the BBC published a fascinating article about the latest phase of conservation work on Henry VIII's wrecked flagship, the Mary Rose. The restoration of the Mary Rose is ongoing, and this latest phase involves a fantastic machine called...
Posted by Renee on February 11, 2008 10:12 AM
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