{"product_id":"wooden-warship-construction-a-history-in-ship-models-9781473894808","title":"Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world  many of which are official  contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or by the shipbuilders themselves. They range from the mid-seventeenth-century to the present day and represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence  these models offer more detail than even the most detailed plans  and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that the finest marine painter could not. This book takes a selection of the best models from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of wooden shipbuilding to describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity. For this purpose  it reproduces a large number of photos  all in full color  and includes many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth  but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis  the book weaves the illustrations into an authoritative text  producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650349948981,"sku":"ByrdShop_1473894808","price":248.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781473894808.jpg?v=1781794822","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wooden-warship-construction-a-history-in-ship-models-9781473894808","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}