Overview
This guide has entries for booby-hatch, growler, jack in the basket, ""tiddley"", and throat seizing, it is also a readable reference work for the interested landlubber. Abridged from the ""Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea"", the book provides detailed explanations of nearly 1,500 sailing terms. As well as navigational and meteorological definitions, there are entries on weather lore, sailing expressions, and catch phrases - ""to the bitter end"", for example, is a sailing term that has now passed into general use. The 150 illustrations are themselves a guide to rigs and rigging, knots, tackles, and a wide variety of onboard fittings and equipment.
Full Product Details
Author: Ian Dear ,
Peter Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford Paperbacks
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.00cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 19.00cm
Weight: 0.177kg
ISBN: 9780192861474
ISBN 10: 0192861476
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 01 July 1992
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Replaced By: 9780192800688
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Will fit into the smallest dinghy...contains in dictionary form an astonishing amount about rigging and fitting out. --Daily Telegraph For scholars and writers, it is indispensable; for anyone interested in boats or words, irresistable. --Motor Boat Will fit into the smallest dinghy...contains in dictionary form an astonishing amount about rigging and fitting out. --Daily Telegraph For scholars and writers, it is indispensable; for anyone interested in boats or words, irresistable. --Motor Boat Will fit into the smallest dinghy...contains in dictionary form an astonishing amount about rigging and fitting out. --Daily Telegraph For scholars and writers, it is indispensable; for anyone interested in boats or words, irresistable. --Motor Boat Will fit into the smallest dinghy...contains in dictionary form an astonishing amount about rigging and fitting out. --Daily Telegraph For scholars and writers, it is indispensable; for anyone interested in boats or words, irresistable. --Motor Boat
"""Will fit into the smallest dinghy...contains in dictionary form an astonishing amount about rigging and fitting out.""--Daily Telegraph ""For scholars and writers, it is indispensable; for anyone interested in boats or words, irresistable.""--Motor Boat"
Will fit into the smallest dinghy...contains in dictionary form an astonishing amount about rigging and fitting out. --Daily Telegraph<br> For scholars and writers, it is indispensable; for anyone interested in boats or words, irresistable. --Motor Boat<br>
Author Information
About the Editors: Ian Dear is the author of numerous books on sailing, including America's Cup, Fastnet, The Royal Yacht Squadron, and is co-author of Bunkside Companion. Peter Kemp is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea and has written widely on sailing.
