With a Pinch of Salt: A Collection of Nautical Expressions and Other Stories

by Capt. Nick Bates (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.71

  Are you clewed-up about all those expressions that so enrich the language of sailors not to mention the landlubbers who have Shanghaied their vocabulary? Do you know Captain Setab's Second Law of Dynamics, or why timbers shiver, even in horse latitudes, where a brass monkey has nothing to fear? This little book, chock-a-block with the wit and wisdom of a Captain who came up through the hawse pipe to command one of the most famous vessels afloat, gives you the whole nine yards.