The cruise ship story was a no-brainer to him: from a producer's standpoint, it has high stakes, human drama and a logical beginning, middle and end.
What this latest news from Kew and the polar ship story share is how strongly an economic frame is being ever-more printed on the patterns of UK science.
"Now," Riley said, breathing deeply, "does anyone else have a problem with how I run this ship?" The stories have been embellished over time, revisionists helping Riley out, the way the Lombardi and Rockne myths took shape.
Darrell Etherington is our new Features Coordinator and will be helping to prepare and ship feature stories like this piece we published recently on women in VC.
They were very supportive of my work while I was working on my book "We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball," which came out in 2008.
Mr. Snediker, who has the look of a classic seaman, with a white beard and denim sleeves rolled up to expose an anchor tattooed on his left forearm, led the research into the details of the original Amistad that had been little noticed by historians interested in the ship's story, not its nautical design.
As Ship's story shows, on-screen representation operates as an important (if undervalued) way to glean information about the world.
After reading it 40 times, Shaun decides to be a writer, too, and ships a story of his own off to Skinner along with an application to Stanford, where Skinner teaches.
His next book is Down to the Sea in Ships, a story of seafaring.
As they have traveled toward New York together, the crew of this ship has traded stories of that day, with personal details fleshing out the standard narrative of disbelief, sorrow and outrage.
