Postmodernity Minnesota Press 2 Edn (Concepts Social Thought) - Softcover

LYON

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816632278 ISBN 13: 9780816632275

Publisher: Open University Press, 2000

Synopsis

OUP PBK,1994

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David Lyon spent his working life at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where for over twenty years he looked after the huge ships' plans collection before becoming Curator of Naval Ordnance, then Head of Enquiries and finally Chief of Research of the Maritime Information Centre. He served in the Royal Navy Reserve and having qualified as a diving officer, was instrumental in the development of underwater archaeology in Britain, diving on the "Mary Rose" amongst others. He is a member of the Council of the Society for Nautical Research and of the Nautical Museums Trust. He has written and lectured extensively both in Britain and abroad an his many publications include "The Sailing Navy List", "The Denny List", "Steam, Steel and Torpedoes", and "Sea Battles in Close-up: The Nelson Era". He has first-hand experience of all manner of craft and now shares with his wife a double-ended yole which they sail in the Thames estuary.

David Lyon spent his working life at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where for over twenty years he looked after the huge ships' plans collection before becoming Curator of Naval Ordnance, then Head of Enquiries and finally Chief of Research of the Maritime Information Centre. He served in the Royal Navy Reserve and having qualified as a diving officer, was instrumental in the development of underwater archaeology in Britain, diving on the "Mary Rose" amongst others. He is a member of the Council of the Society for Nautical Research and of the Nautical Museums Trust. He has written and lectured extensively both in Britain and abroad an his many publications include "The Sailing Navy List", "The Denny List", "Steam, Steel and Torpedoes", and "Sea Battles in Close-up: The Nelson Era". He has first-hand experience of all manner of craft and now shares with his wife a double-ended yole which they sail in the Thames estuary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816632278
• ISBN 13: 9780816632275
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 144