{"id":928,"date":"2016-03-02T20:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2016-03-02T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:14:28","slug":"reviews-and-a-guest-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/02\/reviews-and-a-guest-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews and a guest blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Replica of Ferriby boat being sailed (http:\/\/www.ferribyboats.co.uk\/)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not much new here this week, since my blogging effort has mainly gone into a guest blog at Antoine Vanner’s Dawlish Chronicles, on the subject\u00a0Prehistoric Seafaring along the Atlantic Coasts<\/a>. Normally Antoine’s blog deals with 19th century naval issues, but on this occasion he was kind enough to let me take his readers back into the Bronze and Neolithic ages.<\/p>\n

On to reviews. The Flame Before Us<\/em> has just had a very pleasant 5* review on Hoover Book Reviews<\/a>. “From the noble, nose in the air, Egyptians to the settlements of peasants to the nomadic clans, we have a tale of loss, hardship, and hope as cultures collide and times change. \u00a0Kudos to the author for a most enjoyable series. \u00a0I look forward to more.” And in time, hopefully there will be more.<\/p>\n

And finally, for those who haven’t yet seen it, here is a review of Far from the Spaceports<\/em><\/a>. This review is by\u00a0Ian Grainger, who regularly produces my covers. Science fiction is much more his cup of tea than historicals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not much new here this week, since my blogging effort has mainly gone into a guest blog at Antoine Vanner’s Dawlish Chronicles, on the subject\u00a0Prehistoric Seafaring along the Atlantic Coasts. Normally Antoine’s blog deals with 19th century naval issues, but on this occasion he was kind enough to let me take his readers back into … Continue reading Reviews and a guest blog<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,10,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-from-the-spaceports","category-guest-post","category-review","category-the-flame-before-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}