REVIEWS people will be interested in all the articles included , almost everyone interested in maritime history will find some articles worthwhile. GARY KETELS Mr. Ketels, a historian, lives in Munich. Dictionary of Ship Types: Ships, Boats and Rafts under Oar and Sail , Alfred Dudszus and Ernest Henriot , tr. Keith Thomas (S heridan House, Dobbs Ferry, NY ; Conway Maritime , London , 1987 , 25lpp, illus, $45 .00hb) This book bears some resemblance to Bjorn Landstri:im 's well known Lore of the Ship- particul ary in its line drawings-but it is more definitive and illustrative. Photographs and paintings reproduced in color and black and white breathe life and a touch of romance into these pages, as a seemingly endless parade of the world 's ship types passes by . Interspersed throughout this panoply of vessels from the aak ("a ketch rigged
sailing cargo ship used from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century ") to the zulu (" a Scottish fishing vessel with two masts rigged with lugsails, and introduced around 1880" ) one reads of the dghaisa , a Maltese water taxi; the hale, a cousin of the pirogue and used on the Atlantic coast of France for transporting grain ; and the ma-yangtzu , a junk found on the Yangtze River. Dr. Dudszus and Mr. Henriot are particulary to be congratulated for including references to archaeological finds such as the first-century Roman ships found in Lake Nemi (and whose remains were largely destroyed during World War II) and the seventh-century Yassi Ada (Turkey) ship whose discovery fills a gap in our understandi ng of the development of naval architecture in the West. The authors also include entries about several individual hi storic vessels. Despite their good inte ntions in highlighting a few
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ships which epitomize the achievements of their day , they have done so to the exclusion of additional vessel types . In their introduction they note that the archives on which they drew include some 4 ,000 different vessel types , on ly half of which are represented here . But this in no way detracts from the overall excellence and usefulness of this well researched and handsome book. LI NCOLN PAINE The Quest of Simon Richardson: A Biography, Dorothy Richardson (David & Charles , Inc. , North Pomfret , VT , 1986, 172pp, illus , $22.95hb) No one knows exactly where Simon Richardson died , or exactly how , or when , but what little is known about his death is amply compensated for in this unsentimental tribute to his life by his mother, Dorothy Richardson. In 1977 , 25-year-old Simon set off with a crew of 6--including the celebrated Arctic explorer, H. W . Tilman , age 79-from Southhampton, bound for the South Shetland Islands via Rio de Janeiro. The goal was to climb Mt. Foster, one of the most inaccessible peaks in the Antarctic. They sailed from Rio on 1 November, and vanished without a trace. Simon's mother discovered his diaries after his death . She ably describes events which shaped him and those which he himself so single-minded ly shaped himself. Clearly she means us to draw solace from a life lived without comprom ise, and the reader does, while lamenting its mysterious end. HAL FESSENDEN Mr. Fessenden is a member of the NMHS Publications Committee.
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