Overview
'What a fun book! Reading Sea Fever is enticing and intriguing, like watching floating treasure bob past your nose.' - Tristram Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator Can you interpret the shipping forecast? Do you know your flotsam from your jetsam? Or who owns the foreshore? Can you tie a half-hitch - or would you rather splice the mainbrace? Full of charming illustrations and surprising facts, Sea Fever provides the answers to all these and more. Mixing advice on everything from seasickness to righting a capsized boat with arcane marine lore, recipes, history, dramatic stories of daring-do and guides to the wildlife we share our shores with, even the most experienced ocean-dweller will find something in these pages to surprise and delight.
Full Product Details
Author: Meg Clothier ,
Chris Clothier
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 12.80cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.248kg
ISBN: 9781788161626
ISBN 10: 1788161629
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 05 May 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
The sea. A place to live and work, a place to see and be seen. A place to run risks, a place to run away from it all. The sea is Rule Britannia - and two fingers up to authority. The sea is our bulwark, our barricade. Our playground, our larder. It is the songs and poems that drum deep in our collective consciousness. It is our island's joint inheritance, made as much from stories as sediment and saltwater. The sea is where we can breathe deep, fling our arms wide and look outwards to friendship, opportunity and adventure. -- Excerpt from the book
Author Information
Meg Clothier has sailed from England to Alaska, worked as a journalist in London and Moscow, published two historical novels and run a London park cafe. She now lives, writes and grows vegetables on the Quantock Hills, but likes nothing better than getting cold, wet and hungry at the seaside, because then she can get warm and dry, drink gin and play Risk. Her brother, Chris Clothier, has sailed singlehanded from Scotland to Norway, found himself upside down in a yacht in the Southern Ocean and won countless dinghy races using all the deviousness he fails to bring to the Risk board. Nowadays, he lives in London where he keeps a weather eye on other people's money - when he's not daydreaming about kitesurfing for breakfast and barbecued mackerel for tea.
