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The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea (Hardcover)

by Nicolette Jones (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; illustrated edition edition (22 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316726125
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316726122
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 414,271 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Excellent . . . Nicolette Jones charts [Plimsoll's] course with skill, insight and elegance' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH '[Jones] is sure-footed, never allowing her empathy with her subject to blind her to his failings. Her comprehensive biography ... will be the first port of call for all future researchers' SUNDAY TIMES 'Expertly tracked' OBSERVER 'Jones clearly loves her subject ... Her set-pieces mix sensitivity and narrative gusto. Dickens ... would have delighted in this story' Jonathan Keates 'Fascinating . . . Jones's witty, immaculately researched account of a great campaign is the ideal deckchair book' INDEPENDENT 'Its entirely fitting that his story should be brought to life so vividly by this well-researched and entertaining book' EVENING HERALD 'The author brings the Plimsolls' times to life, showing great empathy with the Victorian working man and the miserable lot of the common sailor at sea.' THE TIMES 'An exhaustively researched and lively account of political activism' SUNDAY TIMES 'Jones is an effective communicator of Plimsoll's passion and her book will endear itself even to those ignorant of shipping' OBSERVER 'A fascinating piece of social history.' SUNDAY HERALD 'Splendid and meticulously researched.' GUARDIAN 'Elegantly written, THE PLIMPSOLL SENSATION is a testament to the might of public opinion and the conviction of a passionate man.' ECONOMIST 'This is an excellent addition that the genre of popular history which sets out to tackle a single theme and ends by illuminating an age.' HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW


Neil Hanson, The Sunday Times , 25 June 2006

"[Jones] is sure-footed, never allowing her empathy with her subject to blind her to his failings"
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5.0 out of 5 stars A bouquet of praise, 10 Sep 2006
By J. G. Williams "Black Jack" (Liverpool. England) - See all my reviews
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With the foyers of the high street book stores 'down by the head' with grandiloquent biographies of so called celebrities it is both pleasing and highly refreshing to come across that rare elusive biographical pearl and such is Nicolette Jones's "The Plimsoll Sensation".
Such an extraordinary writing that obviously required time covering in depth research that opens to the world the life of a man devoted to saving lives of that mainly unrecognised band of men .....the merchant seaman. Ms Jones deserves a bouquet of praise for such an outstanding literary achievement.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars More Praise (also from Liverpool), 8 Dec 2006
This is a terrific account of a great story. But it's more than that. Plimsoll's straightforward, practical approach to making the World a better place is a timely reminder of that actually yes we can make the World a better place, and politicians can make a difference, if they're not led astray by cloudy pillars of abstraction.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant piece of social history, 28 May 2009
By Mr. M. D. Holloway "Ealing writer" (Ealing, London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea (Paperback)
Nicolette Jones's book is brilliantly researched and entertainingly written. It tells the story of how the formidable George Plimsoll campaigned to regulate merchant shipping in the late 19th century, eventually giving his name to the load-line that appears on all ships today. On the face of it not a promising subject but Plimsoll is a larger than life character, who more or less invented the single-issue campaign. The ship-owners who opposed him are the epitome of moustache-twirling Victorian villainy. As a matter of course they would despatch over-loaded and over-insured "coffin ships", confident that they'd turn a profit whether or not the ship reached its detsination. The book goes to the heart of the Victorian debate about free trade and social responsibility. It has great insights into the attitudes, social history and the politics of the age.
And it explains how plimsolls (the rubber-soled gym shoe that we all wore in the Jurassic era before trainers were invented) got their name. Highly recommended.
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