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The Wooden Fishing Boats of Richard Irvin & Sons. 2017

By (author) Gloria Wilson
Foreword by Paul Gartside
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Lodestar Books, London, United Kingdom
Published: 8th Dec 2017
Dimensions: w 201mm h 216mm d 20mm
Weight: 315g
ISBN-10: 1907206418
ISBN-13: 9781907206412
Barcode No: 9781907206412
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Synopsis
Having recorded in pen and ink the -"Fishing Boats of Scotland" which she loves, Gloria Wilson here focusses her attention on the -Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden, cruiser sterned fishing boats for which it became renowned in the second half of the twentieth century. Almost one hundred of her own photographs accompany her account of the boats and the people who made up a distinctive and now disappearing maritime culture. As Paul Gartside writes in his Foreword: "Gloria Wilson truly belongs in the tradition of the folklorists-individuals moved initially by the discovery of beauty in the commonplace who are then compelled to understand and record what they find... One hopes her example will spur others to similar effort, for the capturing of culture and local knowledge before it slips away is always a noble pursuit."

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