The Sword & the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford

The America's Cup (Country Life, 1964).Three Centuries of Sailing (Country Life, 1964).The Companion Guide to the Greek Isles (Collins, 1963), reprinted many times.Ulysses Found (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963).

The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961) US title: The Great Siege (Harcourt Brace, 1961).US title: A Wind from the North: The Life of Henry the Navigator (Harcourt Brace, 1960) UK title: Southward the Caravels: The Story of Henry the Navigator (Hutchinson, 1961).The Wind Off the Island (Hutchinson, 1960) reprinted as: The Wind off the Island: A Portrait of Sicily and Life on the Mediterranean Sea.The Mighty Hood: The Life and Death of the Royal Navy's Proudest Ship (Hodder & Stoughton, 1959).English Victorian Jewellery (Country Life, 1959).The Journeying Moon (Jarrolds, 1958) reprinted as: The Journeying Moon: Sailing into History.Four Centuries of European Jewellery (Country Life, 1953).Contemporary Jewellery and Silver Design (Heywood & Co., 1950).īradford lived in Kalkara, on Malta for a number of years, this also being where he died, and where a commemorative marble plaque exists to his memory and a street next to his old home is named after him. He regularly wrote letters to the British press, in particular The Times and Country Life, on matters of history and sailing. Ī 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. It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, Mischief, to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes. His book, The Journeying Moon describes some of these voyages. Street in Kalkara, Malta, named after BradfordĪ keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there.

The Sword & the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford