Joseph Mallord William Turner, Britain's greatest and most mysterious artist, was the son of a Convent Garden barber and a woman who died in Bethlehem mental hospital. During his lifetime (1775-1851), Turner achieved fame and fortune for a range of work encompassing seascape and landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolors. His friend and colleague C. R. Leslie remembered him thus: "Turner was short and stout, and had a sturdy, sailor-like walk. He might be taken for the captain of a steamboat at first glance; but a second would find more in his face than belongs in any ordinary mind. There was the peculiar keenness of expression in his eye that is only seen in men of constant habits of observation." 
 For this new biography, the first comprehensive narrative of Turner's life in a generation, Anthony Bailey has searched through the archives, studied the scholarly literature, made use of much research done in the last thirty years, and looked at almost all of Turner's sketchbooks as well as many of his paintings and watercolors. He has uncovered fresh material and put together other facts, previously known, to shed new light on those complicated and secretive man. 
 Anthony Bailey has set out to write a biography of the man, not a book about his paintings, and J.M.W. Turner comes vividly to life in theses pages. Both reclusive and gregarious, private and vainglorious, tough and vulnerable, a long-tern bachelor who fathered two daughters, Turner was full of contradictions, and Anthony Bailey rises masterfully to the challenge of describing them here.

Standing in the Sun

Biographies & Memoirs

BAILEY, Anthony

Arts & Literature

Harper

The author describes his three-week-long trek through Wales, including the country's Roman roads, mountain paths, coastal cliffs, beaches, local inhabitants, merchants, and workers

A Walk Through Wales

Travel

Europe

Harpercollins

The New England coast, a small cruising sloop, warm winds - and Anthony Bailey's seductive storytelling powers. Lochinvar sails the waters between eastern Long Island and the tip of Cape Cod, poking into deep harbors and shallow ponds, anchoring off fashionable resorts and in remote coves, encountering the rough and the smooth, and exploring, as is Bailey's way, the present life of the coast while keeping a perceptive eye on the past. The Coast of Summer is an account of a season afloat into which is woven an autobiography of half a lifetime sailing New England waters. It portrays a number of unusual men and women - friends, acquaintances, and chance-met strangers - who live on these shores. Not least, it is an often amusing and sometimes touching record of how Bailey and his wife, Margot, struggle to coexist aboard Lochinvar, the nomadic home from which, by the end of summer, they are loath to come ashore. For the armchair sailor, this book will be as gratifying as a full-sail breeze. To practical yachting people, it offers modestly but enticingly the fruits of much hard-won and not always heroic experience. And for readers curious about the bays and the sounds, the Cape and the islands (including Shelter, Gardiners, Fishers, Block, Prudence, the Elizabeths, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket), The Coast of Summer provides dramatic dips into history and personal incursions into contemporary high-season life. It amply demonstrates Bailey's ability to evoke wind and water, the way of a boat, and the lively interactions of individuals who depend upon the coast.

The Coast of Summer: Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

The author of The Outer Banks recounts his three-week-long trek through Wales, describing the country's Roman roads, mountain paths, coastal cliffs, beaches, local inhabitants, merchants, workers, and more. National ad/promo.

Perennial

The Horizon Concise History Of The Low Countries By: Anthony Bailey 1972. Library Of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-5351 ISBN: 07-003215-7 First Edition. Rare! PUBLISHER: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. Hardcover With Dust-Jacket Printed In The United States

The Horizon Concise History of the Low Countries

American Heritage Pub. Co.

Shows beaches, harbors, cities, historic buildings, windmills, bridges, lighthouses, and cliffs along Massachusetts' shore

The Coast of Massachusetts

History

Barrett, Wayne

MacKay, Anne

Americas

Skyline Pr

In 1940 seven-year-old Tony Bailey was evacuated to the United States—one of more than 16,000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed inevitable. He spent four years with the wealthy Spaeth family in Dayton, Ohio, before returning to his parents in Southampton. Evocative, heartfelt, and charming, this is a story of a double childhood—of a boy who became American while never ceasing to be British. "An original, sensitively told story in which the perspectives of the child are carefully remembered. . . . Bailey's book speaks, with gentle eloquence, not only to those who remember being boys, but to everyone who would seek to protect children from the hurts and ravagings that ordinary life can inflict, to say nothing of war." —Richard Montague, Newsday "No doubt Tony Bailey owed America something for its hospitality during those anxious years, and with this book he has amply repaid the debt." —Joseph McLellan, Washington Post "An exquisitely controlled, quietly amusing and moving story." —Publishers Weekly "As tender as it is truthful, and as amusing as it is unpretentious." —John Russell, New York Times Book Review

America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World

Historical

University of Chicago Press

A look at Benedict Arnold's conspiracy to surrender West Point to the British, told from the point of view of a leading participant, the charming and talented professional military man, amateur actor, and poet John Andre, who is compelled by his code of conduct to rise above his own shortcomings.

Major Andre

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The Outer Banks

Four hundred years after the first English colonists tried to gain a foothold on the coast of North Carolina, with its fragile islands and hazardous inlets, Anthony Bailey made a journey along the Outer Banks. He found a landscape that is by turns intrguing, dismaying, and enchanting.

Travel Writing

Four hundred years after the first English colonists struggled to gain a foothold on the coast of North Carolina, British writer Anthony Bailey made a journey along these same barrier islands. In this popular book, highly acclaimed since 1989, he combines keen observations of the Outer Banks' natural splendor with a genuine appreciation of the people who live there. Whether describing his experience waiting out a hurricane in a Wanchese restaurant, his mosquito-plagued visit to an abandoned village on Portsmouth Island, or his trip to the top of Cape Hatteras lighthouse with a Coast Guard lieutenant, Bailey captures the spirit of a unique and much-loved region, its history, and especially its people.

United States

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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Standing in the Sun

A Walk Through Wales

The Coast of Summer: Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod

A Walk Through Wales

The Horizon Concise History of the Low Countries

The Coast of Massachusetts

America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World

Major Andre

The Outer Banks

The Outer Banks