Stephen Taylor is a former journalist and foreign correspondent, and the author of eight books.
This website provides a guide to his history, biography and travel writing.
Sons of the Waves – The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail is Stephen’s eighth book and a return to the maritime theme that has run through his writing in recent years. It was published by Yale University Press in April 2020 and was awarded a certificate of merit in that year’s Mountbatten Maritime Awards for Best Book.
“Enthralling … This is maritime history but it is also social history of the highest order … Taylor has brought the men themselves back to vivid and exhilarating life: he stitches together the brutality and wonder of their lives with intelligence, judgement and compassion.”
– Mathew Lyons, Literary Review
“Engrossing … suffused with a dark Dickensian melancholy.”
– Roger Lewis, Dail Mail, Book of the Week
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