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The Shipping Forecast (Hardcover)
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The Shipping Forecast (Hardcover)
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The UK shipping forecast covers the waters of Western Europe and
separates them into 31 sea areas encompassing the UK, from Dover to
Southeast Iceland to German Bight- of which Power photographed all
of them, over a period of four years. Each image is captioned with
the 0600hr forecast on the day they were taken. This newly edited
and revised second edition includes over 100 previously unpublished
images. 'The shipping forecast, of course, exists to save lives. It
warns those at sea, or about to put to sea, of approaching storms.
But for the majority of us, in Britain at least, its strange,
rhythmic language is unashamedly romantic and oddly reassuring,
despite forming an image of an island nation perpetually buffeted
by wind and waves. It manages to do all this while remaining
virtually incomprehensible: the general synopsis at 0 1 00. Low,
Southeast Iceland 995 moving slowly southwest, filling 1 00 7 by 0
1 00 tomorrow. Low, Biscay 958, expected Wales 1 00 5 by the same
time. Low, Trafalgar 1 00 3, moving slowly east, losing its
identity.'
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