In the much-anticipated follow-up to his 2002 international triumph The Sea, photographer Philip Plisson figuratively widens his lens to provide a more global focus on the sea and the humans who depend on it for survival. As magnificent as its predecessor, The Eternal Sea includes more than 200 new and unpublished images of oceans in more than 50 countries, seen close to the surface or from the air. Marine expert Christian Buchet’s accompanying text incisively examines many contemporary environmental issues affecting oceans around the world. Featuring 12 spectacular gatefolds, The Eternal Sea continues to surprise and beguile the reader with breathtaking images illustrating the beauty, fury, and sheer ecological importance of the ocean.

The Eternal Sea

Arts & Photography

Buchet, Christian

Photography & Video

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Management & Construction: Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society Volume 4

History

Dawson, Peter

MacDOUGALL, Philip

Morriss, Roger

Riley, Ray

Clark, Celia

Sargent, Edward

Military

The Naval Dockyards Society

"A very important analysis of British naval victualling, with wide implications for economic as well as naval history." N.A.M. RODGER, All Souls College, Oxford This book, by a leading French maritime historian, discusses how Britain's success in the Seven Years War (1756-63) was made possible by the creation of a superb victualling system for the British navy. It shows how this system had been developed over the preceding centuries, how it balanced carefully the advantages of state control with the flexibility of commercial contracting, and how the system was designed to mesh with and support British strategic ambitions. It provides rich detail on how the system worked, how it was administered, how key products were priced, bought, stored and transported, and how it compared, very favourably, to equivalent systems in France and elsewhere. The book shows how the increasing efficiency of the Victualling Board enabled the navy to take advantage of agricultural, commercial and financial advances in the British economy to supply its front line fighting forces over ever longer distances and ever longer periods. The Victualling Board was one of a number of interfaces between the demands of the State and the supply facilities of the economy, to their mutual benefit. As a major purchaser through competitive tender, the Board made a positive contribution to the entrepreneurial spirit of British society. The book goes beyond maritime history by discussing how naval supply provided a huge stimulus for British finance, agriculture, trade and manufacturing, and argues that all this together was one of the principal causes of Britain's later Industrial Revolution. CHRISTIAN BUCHET is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre d'Etudes de la Mer at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Besides comparative studies of the British and French navies 1688-1783, he has written extensively on maritime environmental issues and is Secretary General of the National Council of the French Archipelago. Table of Contents Foreword Introduction From an Empirically-Based Organisation to a Centrally Planned System: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Victualling Board The Victualling Board and the Seven Years War Food Rations and their Evolution The Victualling Board's Principal Bases An Example of a Victualling Yard under the Jurisdiction of the Victualling Board: Plymouth, Satellite of British Logistical Power Victualling in the Secondary Home Ports and in the Overseas Stations An Example of Stations Managed by a Private Contractor in the Service of the Crown: The Caribbean Staging Posts Meat Cereals and Pulses The Remaining Sectors: Beverages, Butter and Cheese, Salt, Olive Oil and Raisins Conclusion Appendix I: Ordinary Charge of the Victualling Board in 1747 Appendix II: Commissioners of the Victualling Board, 1755-1763 Appendix III: The Structure of British Naval Administration Appendix IV: Itemised Distribution of Victualling Board Expenses Appendix V: List of Victuals on the Southsea Castle Leaving for the East Indies at the end of 1759 with a Crew of 130 Men Appendix VI: Process to be used in the Curing of Meat Appendix VII: Wage Totals, according to Activity, Paid to Victualling Personnel in the London Yard in the First Quarter of 1761 Appendix VIII: Supervisory Staff of the Victualling Board 1761 Sources and Bibliography

The British Navy, Economy and Society in the Seven Years War

Business & Money

Economics

Boydell Press

La grande histoire vue de la mer

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

CHERCHE MIDI

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