
Jonathan Douglas, Maryport poet
The poems of Jonathan Douglas play a small but important role in The Vanishing Age of Sail.

Publication Day
My second book, The Vanishing Age of Sail: The Illustrated Journals of Kelsick Wood, Shipbuilder, is published today by Amberley. It tells the story of Georgian Britain, the Industrial Revolution and a Cumbrian shipbuilder’s fight for survival.

Cumberland and Cumbria
I have learned that no amount of proofreading will catch every mistake: there will always be something.