A challenger's song
Pearson, Philip2021
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A sensitive and lovingly told story mixing fact, action, letters, journals, song and oral history. Pearson writes with a rich clarity and intelligence about his great grandfather, Charlie Collins, the boy who ran away to sea to become head stoker on the celebrated scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger (1872-76). Finding his feet as a blacksmith back in Brighton with wife Mary and family, we learn about the joys, hardships and everyday heroism of their lives within the grand sweep of 19th Century history.
Main title:
A challenger's song / Philip Pearson.
Author:
Pearson, Philip, author
Imprint:
London : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2021.
Collation:
254 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781398473713 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
1293063