Ernle bradford biography of abraham

A sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was also a prolific author and popular historian, many of his books remaining in print to this day. He regularly wrote letters to the British press, in particular The Times and Country Lifeon matters of history and sailing. So get reviewing! Winners announced in the next newsletter. Note: you must be a registered user of Book Notification.

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Read Title Avg. Year Book Link 1. Wikidata item. British writer — Cole Green, Norfolk, England. KalkaraMalta. Life [ edit ]. List of works [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. The New York Times. Great siege: malta Open Road Media. Sailing round Sicily, amongst other things he gathered material for a book on antique jewellery. Of Janet Bradford one finds little other than references to her part in their cruises but one gets a picture of a very competent yachtswoman.

She was a keen sailor before marriage and won the Little Ship Club trophy for seamanship and navigation. She was also very capable with sail needle and marlin spike. Bradford returned to Malta in and being a former Naval officer was privileged to berth his boat in the small rock cut harbour at Fort St Angelo, then a Royal Naval establishment.

The fort is on the head of the promontory forming the west side of Kalkara creek. St Angelo harbour was the moat separating the fort from the town of Birgu Vittoriosa. Over wintering afloat he had the mast down, enabling the boat to pass under the road and pipe bridges at the harbour entrance. Bradford and his wife lived aboard for five months whilst he researched for writing projects.

From the foreword to Ulysses Found he spent most of the years between and sailing the Mediterranean in his own boats. The three years following he used Malta as a base for expeditions to Greece and the Aegean islands and as many other places in the central and eastern Mediterranean as he could.

Ernle bradford biography of abraham

From onwards another twenty odd years were lived in Malta with frequent sailing. From Naval service and sailing his own boats Bradford got to know the Mediterranean exceptionally well. In the course of my wanderings [over more than twenty years] I came to a number of conclusions about Homeric geography and the navigations of Ulysses.