The cruise of the "Nona" / Hilaire Belloc ; introduction by Jonathan Raban.
By: Belloc, Hilaire [author.]
.
Material type: 
BookSeries: The century travellers.Publisher: London : Century Publishing, 1983Copyright date: ©1983Description: xx, 347 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0712602801 (paperback).Subject(s): Nona (Cutter) | England -- Description and travel | Irish Sea -- Description and travelDDC classification: 910.45
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 910.45 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00180358 |
Browsing MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library shelves, Shelving location: Lending Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Hilaire Belloc, 1870 - 1953 Hilaire Belloc was born in France in 1870, educated at Oxford, and naturalized as a British subject in 1902. Although he began as a writer of humorous verse for children, his works include satire, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and many volumes of essays.With his close friend and fellow Catholic, G. K. Chesterton, Belloc founded the New Witness, a weekly newspaper opposing capitalism and free thought and supporting a philosophy known as distributism. The pair was so close in thought and association that George Bernard Shaw nicknamed them Chesterbelloc.
During his life, Belloc published over 150 books. Today, however, he is best remembered for only a few works, most notably his light verse, such as Cautionary Tales (1907) and A Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896).
Belloc died in 1953 from burns caused when his dressing gown caught fire from the hearth.
(Bowker Author Biography)