The average rating for History of English Sea Ordnance: The Age of Evolution, 1523-1715 v. 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2012-06-22 00:00:00 John Rison Well collated photos and images make Dublin of 100 years ago recognisable behind hit-and-miss new developments. What is with that giant Maxol station along the quays? |
Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-08 00:00:00 David Cross A suprisingly well-researched and dare-I-say-it "literate" book about the history of an unrefined (at its best) activity and its subcultural implications. Wyland was fortuitous enough to be present at some pivotal moments in skateboarding's evolutionary big leap in the 1980's, Mike McGill's unveiling of the the McTwist, for example, as well as living in oft-dreamed of skate meccas in his formative years thanks to willingly mobile parents. The Answer is Never is more than just a detailed and intriguing coming-of-age autobiography, it also fashions some worthy arguments about culture, sociology, commodification, art/social movements, etc. that help to put an activity like skateboarding into a much-wider, and often ironic, context of human expression and experience. Recommended for anyone who skates, has skated, or is interested in fun-loving, non-comformist, physical expression of the modern sort. |
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