Nick Barratt
Autore di Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy
Sull'Autore
Opere di Nick Barratt
Your family's war history 1 copia
Opere correlate
Thirteenth Century England X: Proceedings of the Durham Conference, 2003 (2005) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Thirteenth Century England XII: Proceedings of the Gregynog Conference, 2007 (2009) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Barratt, Nick
- Nome legale
- Barratt, Nicholas David
- Data di nascita
- 1970-05-16
- Sesso
- male
- Istruzione
- King's College London (PhD|history)
King's College, London (PhD|state finance and fiscal history)
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Greater London: The Story of the Suburbs di Nick Barratt
Does what it says on the tin. Ultimately more of a general history of London but does keep the focus on the suburbs at all times. Has a generous amount of maps, too, which is incredibly important as it gives you a handle on where everything is. Doesn't really delve into serious social history or anything - a lot of it is just facts - but it flows easily and there's a lot of interesting stuff. Definitely interesting and a good book if you're interested in the development of London.
excelent non fiction - it contains an easy to read history of the uk and details of the celebrities that took part in the series.
Does the world really need yet another book on the Titanic? It all depends on the book...
In the preface to Lost Voices from the Titanic, author Nick Barratt quotes from the novel, The Cloud Atlas: “The disaster as it actually occurred descends into obscurity as its eyewitnesses die off, documents perish and the wreck of the ship dissolves in its Atlantic grave. Yet a virtual sinking of the Titanic, created from reworked memories, papers, hearsay, fiction – in short, belief – grows ever ‘truer.’ The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming and ever more problematic to access and reconstruct: in contrast, the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening and ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.”
Barratt finished his book just before the death of the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Millvina Dean, who was “the final link with an event that for everyone else on the planet is something we have only read about or viewed on television.” Barratt gathers the words of the people who actually helped construct the great ship, or sailed on its maiden and only voyage, or pulled survivors and bodies from the icy Atlantic, or testified before the inquiries held after the sinking. He enables us to feel what it was like to look at the Titanic without knowing the tragedy that was to befall it, and to have the experience of learning of that terrible night as though it were this morning’s news.
There are other quite excellent books that compile much longer first-hand accounts of the sinking -- The Story of the Titanic As Told by It’s Survivors comes to mind. But the sheer number of voices in Barratt’s book and the range of emotions they convey is particularly illuminating and moving. So did we need another Titanic book? I would say simply, yes.… (altro)
In the preface to Lost Voices from the Titanic, author Nick Barratt quotes from the novel, The Cloud Atlas: “The disaster as it actually occurred descends into obscurity as its eyewitnesses die off, documents perish and the wreck of the ship dissolves in its Atlantic grave. Yet a virtual sinking of the Titanic, created from reworked memories, papers, hearsay, fiction – in short, belief – grows ever ‘truer.’ The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming and ever more problematic to access and reconstruct: in contrast, the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening and ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.”
Barratt finished his book just before the death of the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Millvina Dean, who was “the final link with an event that for everyone else on the planet is something we have only read about or viewed on television.” Barratt gathers the words of the people who actually helped construct the great ship, or sailed on its maiden and only voyage, or pulled survivors and bodies from the icy Atlantic, or testified before the inquiries held after the sinking. He enables us to feel what it was like to look at the Titanic without knowing the tragedy that was to befall it, and to have the experience of learning of that terrible night as though it were this morning’s news.
There are other quite excellent books that compile much longer first-hand accounts of the sinking -- The Story of the Titanic As Told by It’s Survivors comes to mind. But the sheer number of voices in Barratt’s book and the range of emotions they convey is particularly illuminating and moving. So did we need another Titanic book? I would say simply, yes.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 458
- Popolarità
- #53,635
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 34