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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)
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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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[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)
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Jones clearly loves her subject ... Her set-pieces mix sensitivity and narrative gusto. Dickens ... would have delighted in this story (Jonathan Keates)
This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched and prize-winning book, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history. It is the tale of the agitation led by Samuel Plimsoll MP, 'The Sailor's Friend', and by his wife Eliza, who worked together to defend sailors against nefarious practices including overloading and the use of unseaworthy 'coffin-ships'. The backlash of libel cases and vilification almost ruined Plimsoll, but his drive and passion made him feverishly popular with the public; he was the subject of plays, novels, street ballads and music hall songs. With the demonstrative support of the nation, he faced down his enemies, came close to ousting Disraeli's government and achieved lasting safety measures for merchant sailors, including the load line that bears his name. Nicolette Jones throws light on a cross-section of Victorian society and tells the story of an epic legal, social, and political battle for justice, which is still an inspiring example of how the altruism and courage of determined individuals can make the world a better place.
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- Año de publicación2007
- ISBN 10 0349117209
- ISBN 13 9780349117201
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Now in B format.The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero.Samuel Plimsoll was a nineteenth-century hero whose tireless campaigning ended scandalous shipping malpractices and saved hundreds of sailors' lives. Prior to the introduction of the 'Plimsoll Line', greedy shipowners would send dangerously overladen ships to sea, which even light breezes could capsize and sink. The Board of Trade acknowledged that lives were being unnecessarily lost, but it took Plimsoll's loadline to end the practice. He also campaigned to stop the abhorrent insurance scam of 'coffin-ships', by which sailors were forced to put to sea in unseaworthy vessals. These inevitably sank leaving the owners with the insurance money.Lauded by the public and slandered by the powerful shipping magnates, Plimsoll was a philanthropist whose notions of reform characterised the Victorian era. Nicolette Jones's book captures the spirit of a period when less than ten per cent of the population had the vote and public opinion found expression through extra-parliamentary pressure. The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780349117201
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