A Mariner's Miscellany

A Mariner's Miscellany

by PeterH.Spectre (Author)

Synopsis

The editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days assembles some of his favorite classic nautical material into an amalgam of practical information about boats, anchors, rope and ballast, together with poetry, legend, lore, language of the sea, art, thoughts about literature and more. A rich collection of maritime knowledge. fully illustrated.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Seafarer Books
Published: 17 Feb 2005

ISBN 10: 0954706218
ISBN 13: 9780954706210

Media Reviews
Are you interested in knowing what L. Frances Herreshoff and many others: Joseph Conrad, E.B. White, and William Atkin, among the had to say and write about boats? Or the many names for rum, rope, knots and all things nautical? Then this is intelligent reference work and compendium of maritime knowledge by a former editor of Woodenboat magazine. -- Cruising World Cruising World, April 2006