Greenhill, Basil

Overview

Works:	230 works in 722 publications in 3 languages and 7,890 library holdings
Genres:	History Pictorial works Illustrated works Naval history Biographies Festschriften Guidebooks
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction, Composer, Redactor, Restager , wpr, Honoree, Contributor
Classifications:	VM15, 623.821

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Basil Greenhill

Archaeology of the boat : a new introductory study by Basil Greenhill( Book )

16 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 623 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kulturhistorisk beskrivelse af bådens og bådebygningens historie verden over

The evolution of the wooden ship by Basil Greenhill( Book )

17 editions published between 1988 and 2011 in English and held by 513 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book traces the evolution and associated traditions of the wooden ship, through her multiple forms and styles from her prehistoric beginnings to her demise shortly after the First World War. Details are provided on regional variations including the small three-masted schooner (Wales), the large three-masted schooner (Finland), the three-masted barque (Canada), and the four-master schooner (United States)

Travelling by sea in the nineteenth century: interior design in Victorian passenger ships by Basil Greenhill( Book )

14 editions published between 1972 and 1974 in English and held by 376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Wooden sailing ships carried our adventurous forefathers across all the oceans and as far as Australia and New Zealand. What was it like to put up with such cramped conditions for months on end? What prompted our forebears to brave the cold North Atlantic? Basil Greenhill takes first-hand contemporary accounts, and numerous illustrations, many of them previously unpublished, to bring to life these hazardous early voyages. He deals principally with the development of the sailing ship and steamship in the nineteenth century, and delightfully portrays by both illustration and anecodote the gradual amelioration of facilities, accommodation and food on board. The days when the wealthy took their own furniture abroad, and the livestock, required for food on the voyage, were kept on deck, gradually change; the all-purpose saloons became libraries and music rooms, the wooden partitions give way to luxurious staterooms. And so the sailing ship becomes first a steamship, then a paddle steamer and finally a great ocean-going 'travelling palace'. By 1890 the interior decoration of passenger liners moved from the extravagant to the absurd. The photographs, rich in high Victoriana, have been selected from the National Maritime Museum's collection. This is a book which will be of interest to social historians and all those with a love of the sea, both naval and domestic, and those interested in Victoriana and interior design." --

Westcountrymen in Prince Edward's Isle: a fragment of the great migration by Basil Greenhill( Book )

23 editions published between 1967 and 2003 in English and held by 298 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the colonization of Prince Edward Island by emigrants from Devon, England, in the 19th century

A quayside camera, 1845-1917 by Basil Greenhill( Book )

9 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The National Maritime Museum by National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)( Book )

18 editions published between 1974 and 1986 in English and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The North Sea : a highway of economic and cultural exchange, character-history by Arne Bang Andersen( Book )

13 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and Norwegian and held by 259 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James Cook: the opening of the Pacific by Basil Greenhill( Book )

17 editions published between 1970 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Victorian and Edwardian merchant steamships from old photographs by Basil Greenhill( Book )

9 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The British assault on Finland, 1854-1855 : a forgotten naval war by Basil Greenhill( Book )

15 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 221 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book describes what at first sight seems an obscure campaign of the Royal Navy, but its significance has been greatly underestimated since it was the first time in history that a steam battlefleet went to war"--Jacket

Steam and sail: in Britain and North America; 80 photographs mainly from the National Maritime Museum depicting British and North American naval, merchant, and special purpose vessels of the period of transition from sail to steam by P. W Brock( Book )

15 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The archaeology of boats & ships : an introduction by Basil Greenhill( Book )

20 editions published in 1995 in English and French and held by 217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Om arkæologernes fund og beskrivelser af både og skibe fra tidligste tid til middelalderens kogger

The merchant sailing ship: a photographic history; with 127 photographs from the British National Maritime Museum depicting British and North American sailing vessels and the lives of the people who worked in and around them by Basil Greenhill( Book )

11 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Women under sail: letters and journals concerning eight women travelling or working in sailing vessels between 1829 and 1949 by Basil Greenhill( Book )

12 editions published between 1970 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Victorian and Edwardian sailing ships from old photographs by Basil Greenhill( Book )

8 editions published between 1976 and 1981 in English and held by 195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Seafaring under sail : the life of the merchant seaman by Basil Greenhill( Book )

9 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life and death of the merchant sailing ship 1815-1965 by Basil Greenhill( Book )

3 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author traces the later history of the sailing ship; contrary to widely held belief the sailing vessel was under no serious threat from the steamship until the successful development of the marine compound engine in the mid 1860s

Schooners by Basil Greenhill( Book )

7 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 157 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The last tall ships : Gustaf Erikson and the Åland sailing fleets, 1872-1947 by Georg Kåhre( Book )

14 editions published between 1948 and 1990 in English and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The merchant schooners: a portrait of a vanished industry, being a survey in two volumes of the history of the small fore-and-aft rigged sailing ships of England and Wales in the years 1870-1940, with something of their previous history and subsequent fate by Basil Greenhill( Book )

10 editions published between 1968 and 1978 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide