Creekside Tales - Robert Simper
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Creekside Tales
Author: Robert Simper
"I could hear the rain hitting the windowpane behind me with such force that when I looked through the window at the river it was almost blotted out from view. Since I have never mastered the art of sitting still and doing nothing, I started to jot down memories of living in an isolated cottage by a creek for forty-five years. Your environment shapes your attitudes and experiences. How should I shape such a series of rural and maritime recollections? Certainly an explanation as to why we have spent a lifetime in one place. My son Jonathan came in and made suggestions to the basic format while my daughter Caroline Southernwood, who teaches design, said, 'it must be different to your maritime history books'. My wife Pearl waited until she started editing before she helped to shape the end result. The result is personal experiences, set against the background of the creeks and rivers of the East Coast.
I have long tried to make some kind of record of the changing pattern of events around the Thames Estuary. The earliest attempt here is the drawing I did of the wreck of the schooner Rudolf at Shingle Street in about 1953."
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
Author: Robert Simper
"I could hear the rain hitting the windowpane behind me with such force that when I looked through the window at the river it was almost blotted out from view. Since I have never mastered the art of sitting still and doing nothing, I started to jot down memories of living in an isolated cottage by a creek for forty-five years. Your environment shapes your attitudes and experiences. How should I shape such a series of rural and maritime recollections? Certainly an explanation as to why we have spent a lifetime in one place. My son Jonathan came in and made suggestions to the basic format while my daughter Caroline Southernwood, who teaches design, said, 'it must be different to your maritime history books'. My wife Pearl waited until she started editing before she helped to shape the end result. The result is personal experiences, set against the background of the creeks and rivers of the East Coast.
I have long tried to make some kind of record of the changing pattern of events around the Thames Estuary. The earliest attempt here is the drawing I did of the wreck of the schooner Rudolf at Shingle Street in about 1953."
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
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