The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea by Nicolette Jones

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea

Nicolette Jones

416 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched, and Mountbatten Maritime Prize-winning book chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history led by Samuel Plimsoll, MP, "The Sailor's Friend," and his wife Eliza, who worked together to d...

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