Irving Family Archive
A dedicated shelf for books written by members of the Irving family: Commander John Irving's naval histories, seamanship manuals, and yachting classics, alongside Beryl Irving's children's stories and family books.
These titles sit slightly apart from the main historical catalogue, but belong to the same archive tradition: restoring out-of-print works, preserving context, and making them available in durable modern editions.
What this archive contains
Naval history, seamanship, and yachting
Royal Navy officer, yachtsman, and maritime writer. His books range from practical navigation and flag etiquette to naval language, Jutland, Coronel and the Falklands, and the great yachting compendia.
Good starting points: The Yachtsman's Week-End Book, Navigation of Small Yachts, The Smoke Screen of Jutland.
Children's stories and family writing
Beryl Irving's books bring the family shelf into imaginative territory, led by her illustrated children's fantasy.
Good starting points: The Dawnchild.
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