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""Worcester's magnum opus can be rightly understood as the ultimate ecological encyclopedia of Chinese watercraft, most especially of the watercraft of the Yangtze River system."" -- Northern Mariner

"""Worcester's magnum opus can be rightly understood as the ultimate ecological encyclopedia of Chinese watercraft, most especially of the watercraft of the Yangtze River system."" -- Northern Mariner"

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G.R.G Worcester (1890-1969) termed himself a sailor by profession. Born in England in 1890, he entered the Royal Navy in the days of sail and rounded the Horn as a midshipman. Although he turned his back on salt water in 1919, the balance of his professional life was spent within sight and sound of water of some sort. He left the Navy to join the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and during his thirty years as River Inspector he assisted in surveying, marking, and opening the Yangtze to steam navigation to a point 1,450 miles from the sea. In his wanderings up and down the coast and rivers of China, he developed a deep interest in, and affection for, the junkmen and their craft.

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