politalX Politics Store - The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea
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List Price: £20.00
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 387.54044
EAN: 9780316726122
ISBN: 0316726125
Label: Little, Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2006-06-22
Publisher: Little, Brown
Studio: Little, Brown
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Summary: An over researched book
Comment: Although I could appreciate the research and time that must have gone into this book, I found the detailed footnotes and interminable detail detracted from the human story. What Plimsoll did was a fine act and I was interested to read his story, but I could have done without the historical detail that kept coming up and slapping you in the face. It smacked to me of a piece written for a degree rather than a human interest story.
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Summary: A good read
Comment: The author has taken great trouble to research this fascinating and well observed subject. I found it an enjoyable and interesting read. There were very harrowing and detailed descriptions of shipwrecks. The observation of Plimsoll's extensive battles in Parliament and elsewhere were fully covered. It would make a good subject for a film.
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Summary: More Praise (also from Liverpool)
Comment: This is a terrific account of a great story. But it's more than that. Plimsoll's straightforward, practical approach to making the World a better place is a timely reminder of that actually yes we can make the World a better place, and politicians can make a difference, if they're not led astray by cloudy pillars of abstraction.
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Summary: A bouquet of praise
Comment: With the foyers of the high street book stores 'down by the head' with grandiloquent biographies of so called celebrities it is both pleasing and highly refreshing to come across that rare elusive biographical pearl and such is Nicolette Jones's "The Plimsoll Sensation".
Such an extraordinary writing that obviously required time covering in depth research that opens to the world the life of a man devoted to saving lives of that mainly unrecognised band of men .....the merchant seaman. Ms Jones deserves a bouquet of praise for such an outstanding literary achievement.
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