Horatio Morpurgo (39 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the better-known names. Many of the Tudor explorers set sail from the South West peninsula. Morpurgo, with his own deep connections to the Dorset coast, unearths the stories behind little-known key figures Stephen Borough and John Davis, and their brilliant navigational teacher, John Dee, inventor of the 'paradoxall compass'. Morpurgo dramatises an episode in Drake's circumnavigation during which the Golden Hind was stranded on a rock off Celebes, Indonesia. What altercation occurred between Drake and the ship's chaplain, Francis Fletcher, during those terrifying twenty hours? Morpurgo makes a compelling argument for what was really at the heart of that disagreement, and its present-day repercussions. He argues that the Tudor navigators and their stories may hold the key to how we should approach the current environmental crisis. This is the Age of Discovery as you've never heard it before.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. When a schoolboy found the Lyme Bay astrolabe in 1967, a story which should have made headlines instead vanished from local memory. More than fifty years had passed before writer and activist Horatio Morpurgo began to ask why. The more he learnt about this rare navigational instrument and its recovery from the sea near his home, the more intrigued he became.The trail leads over unstable cliffs to dissenting chapels to a neglected story about Atlantic slavery and empire. Marine conservation, Extinction Rebellion and the politics of immigration: each has its say. He encounters sea fans, Mary Anning's ink, John Fowles' writing studio - and beneath these, faultlines as deep in the geology as they are in the culture.A Guide to the Unconformity is what happens when you ask one question of one short stretch of the coastline, then wait long enough for it to answer.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When a schoolboy found the Lyme Bay astrolabe in 1967, a story which should have made headlines instead vanished from local memory. More than fifty years had passed before writer and activist Horatio Morpurgo began to ask why. The more he learnt about this rare navigational instrument and its recovery from the sea near his home, the more intrigued he became.The trail leads over unstable cliffs to dissenting chapels to a neglected story about Atlantic slavery and empire. Marine conservation, Extinction Rebellion and the politics of immigration: each has its say. He encounters sea fans, Mary Annings ink, John Fowles writing studio and beneath these, faultlines as deep in the geology as they are in the culture.A Guide to the Unconformity is what happens when you ask one question of one short stretch of the coastline, then wait long enough for it to answer. When a schoolboy found the Lyme Bay astrolabe in 1967, a story which should have made headlines instead vanished from local memory. More than 50 years later, writer and activist Horatio Morpurgo began to ask why. The more he learnt about this rare navigational instrument and its recovery from the sea near his home, the more intrigued he became. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. pp. 267.

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Condition: New. pp. 267.

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Paperback. Condition: New. When a schoolboy found the Lyme Bay astrolabe in 1967, a story which should have made headlines instead vanished from local memory. More than fifty years had passed before writer and activist Horatio Morpurgo began to ask why. The more he learnt about this rare navigational instrument and its recovery from the sea near his home, the more intrigued he became.The trail leads over unstable cliffs to dissenting chapels to a neglected story about Atlantic slavery and empire. Marine conservation, Extinction Rebellion and the politics of immigration: each has its say. He encounters sea fans, Mary Anning's ink, John Fowles' writing studio - and beneath these, faultlines as deep in the geology as they are in the culture.A Guide to the Unconformity is what happens when you ask one question of one short stretch of the coastline, then wait long enough for it to answer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 190 pages. 7.40x4.69x0.59 inches. In Stock.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 81 pages. Illustrated. Carol Mavor on Aurelian Fairy Tales James Jennings writes from Myanmar Elizabeth Metzger's Figment of Mortality,Tony Roberts on Kirsch & Hofmann Hobbyhorsing, Horatio Morpurgo on Butler on the Odyssey John Lucas remembers G.S. Fraser, Neil Powell on The Poet Alone. (U.P.).…