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Review of Lifeboat, by John R. Stilgoe

International Journal of Maritime History 16:1 (2004): 261–62.

In his natural history of lifeboats, John Stilgoe has mined scores of primary and secondary source store create the complex world of vessels which in the best of circumstances go all but unnoticed and are never launched. It is, he writes, a careful if incomplete look at an artifact that makes most people uncomfortable and at the environment peculiar to that artifact.

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