Nigel Pickford is a maritime historian and works as a consultant for salvage companies, helping to locate shipwrecks and recover lost cargo and treasure. His previous books include Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn.
Fascinating ... Pickford, a historian who also has experience as a
consultant for salvage companies, offers an expert study of the
actual circumstances of this shipwreck. At the same time, his
narrative is extremely readable and well structured. He weaves in
some lesser-known aspects of Stuart life, including horse-racing,
yachting, and map-making. His extensive archival research enables
him to provide poignant details about members of the doomed crew
and to give insights into their private lives ... At a more general
level, he shows how the media was manipulated even in the
seventeenth century, as the Crown tried to control popular opinion
and turn all circumstances to advantage
*Margarette Lincoln, author of London and the Seventeenth
Century*
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