Richard Woodman
Auteur van An Eye of the Fleet
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Richard Woodman was born in London. England in 1944. He became an indentured midshipman in cargo liners at the age of 16, which resulted in a 37 year nautical career. He became captain in 1980. He spent 11 years in command at sea, 6 years in operational management ashore, and is currently a Board toon meer Member of Trinity House, the authority responsible for navigational safety round the coast. He is a regular correspondent for the shipping newspaper Lloyd's List. He has written over 50 books, a mixture of fiction and maritime history. His fiction works include the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, A Kit Faulkner Naval Adventure series, and The William Kite Trilogy. He received several awards including the Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award in 2001 for his journalism, the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal in 2005 for three major studies of convoy operations in the Second World War, and the Marine Society's Thomas Gray Medal in 2010 for his five-volume history of the British Merchant Navy. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Richard Woodman
The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1997) 66 exemplaren
Death or Damnation: Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus 4: "Under False Colours", "Flying Squadron", "Beneath the Aurora" (2002) 14 exemplaren
Revolution! The 'Liberty' War 1775-1784: A narrative history of the American Rebellion (2017) 8 exemplaren
Night Attack 1 exemplaar
DANGEROUS VOYAGING: BRITISH MERCHANT SEAMEN AT WAR 1939-1945 (Dangerous Seas Book 1) (2014) 1 exemplaar
The Accident 1 exemplaar
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The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak: Classic and New Stories from the Age of Fighting Sail (2001) — Medewerker — 32 exemplaren
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- 1944
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- UK
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- London, England, UK
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- Naval historian
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- Trinity House
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Days of yarrr (1)
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