Roger Pilkington (writer)
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Roger Windle Pilkington | |
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| Born | 17 January 1915 Lancashire, U.K. |
| Died | 5 May 2003 (aged 88) London, U.K. |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Spouse | Ingrid Geijer |
Roger Windle Pilkington (7 January 1915 – 5 May 2003) was a British writer and biologist. He is best-known for his 20-volume Small Boat series, recounting trips along Europe's inland waterways in an Admiral's Barge, which he had converted into a sea going cabin cruiser, named "Commodore".[1][2][3] In 1992 he wrote about his crossing the Atlantic in the airship Hindenburg.[4]
Bibliography
Small Boat series
- Thames Waters (1956)
- Small Boat Through Belgium (1957)
- Small Boat Through Holland (1958)
- Small Boat to the Skagerrak (1960)
- Small Boat Through Sweden (1961)
- Small Boat to Alsace (1961)
- Small Boat to Bavaria (1962)
- Small Boat Through Germany (1963)
- Small Boat Through France (1964)
- Small Boat in Southern France (1965)
- Small Boat on the Thames (1966)
- Small Boat on the Meuse (1967)
- Small Boat to Luxembourg (1967)
- Small Boat on the Moselle (1968)
- Small Boat to Elsinore (1969)
- Small Boat to Northern Germany (1969)
- Small Boat on the Lower Rhine (1970)
- Small Boat on the Upper Rhine (1971)
- Small Boat down the Years (1987)
- Small Boat in the Midi (1989)
Other works
- Males and Females (1948)
- Stringer's Folly (1951)
- Biology, Man and God (1951)
- How Your Life Began (1953)
- Revelation Through Science (1956)
- World Without End (1960)
- How Boats Are Navigated (1962)
- Sex and Morality (1966)
- Waterways in Europe (1971)
- The Ormering Tide (1974)
- One Foot in France (1992)
- View From the Shore (1995)
- History and Legends of the European Waterways (1998)
References
- ^ "Roger Pilkington, British Author, 88". The New York Times. 24 May 2003. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ "Roger Pilkington, 88; Wrote Series of Books on Boating in Europe". The Los Angeles Times. 27 May 2003. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ "Pilkington, Roger". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ "Across the Atlantic on the Hindenburg". Air & Space Magazine. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
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