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LATEST NEWS: Paul Gilson will be signing copies of Sole Searching next at the Leigh-on-Sea Heritage Centre on Monday 7th May from 1pm. http://tinyurl.com/7o9fcmy As skipper of the Dunkirk "Little Ship" Endeavour, Paul will be taking part in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday 3 June 2012. Up to a thousand boats will follow the Queen aboard the Royal Barge in what will be one of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river Thames. Read more about Endeavour's valuable role in British history and her epic return to Dunkirk in Sole Searching, Tales of a Thames Fisherman.
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Storms, Sprats and Mutiny… all in a life’s work for Paul
“To call Paul Gilson a fisherman is a bit like calling David Attenborough a birdwatcher. It is true, but omits rather a lot.”
Paul’s book “offers a sailor’s chest full of cracking yarns, ranging from nautical ghost stories to quite extraordinary stories of human folly afloat.”
Read the full review by Tom King in the Southend Echo (545Kb, PDF)