Remaining Faithful by William Hendriksen

Remaining Faithful by William Hendriksen

111 illustrations - 50 in colour - 3 maps

Join local writer Matt Wingett and see Portsmouth through the eyes of writers such as Charles Dickens, Beatrix Potter, P G Wodehouse, H G Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Olivia Manning and even Mahatma Gandhi.

From the heights of Portsdown Hill to the crowded streets of Portsea, from the chaos that was Old Portsmouth to the beaches of Southsea and even the skies above, discover just what writers famous and obscure wrote about the town. On the way, you will meet carousing sailors, enterprising bumboat women, obsessive fortune-tellers, fallen women, moral and immoral landladies, treacherous pilots, disapproving generals and many more characters both fictional and historical in this personal and slightly eccentric tour.

In this book you will discover -

- Which Portsmouth woman wrote America's first ever bestseller

- Why St Jago the monkey became famous at The Common Hard

- What H G Wells hated about Portsmouth

- Where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first set foot in Southsea

- What Lawrence of Arabia was doing in Southsea

- Where midshipman Peter Simple was sent for his cocked hat

Crammed with 111 illustrations, many in colour. Each location is illustrated with a picture taken from the author's personal collection, and he shares stories, facts, quasi-facts and complete fictions in an exploration of the literary heritage of the town.

For anyone interested in Portsmouth, great writing and history, this is the perfect read.

Hendriksen, William: - William Hendriksen was born in Tiel, Gelderland, in the Netherlands in November 1900, but his family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1911. He studied at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary before obtaining an S.T.D. degree from Pike's Peak Bible Seminary, as was common for on-the-job pastors seeking doctorates in the 1930s and 1940s. It is there that he wrote the thesis on the Book of Revelation More than Conquerors, which became Baker Book House's first publication in 1940. Hendriksen served as a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, with a period (1942-1952) as Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. He started the New Testament Commentary, and completed commentaries on half of the New Testament books before his death in 1982.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780615128979
ISBN 10	0615128971
Title	Remaining Faithful
Author	William Hendriksen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fortress Book Service
Year published	2000-09-05
Number of pages	280
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.