The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea
Awards:   Winner of Mountbatten Maritime Award 2006 (UK) Winner of Mountbatten Maritime Prize 2006 Winner of Mountbatten Maritime Prize 2006.
Author:   Nicolette Jones
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780349117201


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   03 May 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Winner of Mountbatten Maritime Award 2006 (UK)
  • Winner of Mountbatten Maritime Prize 2006
  • Winner of Mountbatten Maritime Prize 2006.

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Author:   Nicolette Jones
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Abacus
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780349117201


ISBN 10:   0349117209
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   03 May 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Excellent . . . Nicolette Jones charts [Plimsoll's] course with skill, insight and elegance - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH [Jones] is sure-footed, never allowing her empathy with her subject to blind her to his failings. Her comprehensive biography ... will be the first port of call for all future researchers - SUNDAY TIMES Expertly tracked - OBSERVER Jones clearly loves her subject ... Her set-pieces mix sensitivity and narrative gusto. Dickens ... would have delighted in this story - Jonathan Keates


Excellent . . . Nicolette Jones charts [Plimsoll's] course with skill, insight and elegance - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH [Jones] is sure-footed, never allowing her empathy with her subject to blind her to his failings. Her comprehensive biography ... will be the first port of call for all future researchers - SUNDAY TIMES Expertly tracked - OBSERVER Jones clearly loves her subject ... Her set-pieces mix sensitivity and narrative gusto. Dickens ... would have delighted in this story - Jonathan Keates


'Excellent ... Nicolette Jones charts [Plimsoll's] course with skill, insight and elegance' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * '[Jones] is sure-footed, never allowing her empathy with her subject to blind her to his failings. Her comprehensive biography ... will be the first port of call for all future researchers' SUNDAY TIMES * 'Expertly tracked' OBSERVER * 'Jones clearly loves her subject ... Her set-pieces mix sensitivity and narrative gusto. Dickens ... would have delighted in this story' Jonathan Keates


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Educated at Oxford and Yale, Nicolette Jones is a journalist who has freelanced for the arts pages of all the British broadsheets and writes a column for The Bookseller. She regularly chairs book festivals and appears on radio and TV. She was one of the judges for the 2003 Orange Prize. Author Location: London N4

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