Year: 1977 Language: english Author: Alan Lucas Genre: Encyclopedia Publisher: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Edition: First ISBN: 0-684-15900-7 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 278 Description: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BOATING attempts to bring the language of the sea into the vocabulary of every man, woman, and child who plays with boats. There is no absolute need to know boating terms— we can bungle through without it— but then there is no joy in remaining ignorant. Sailors have a beautiful language with a rich history thioroughly dunked in Cape Horn salt and tarred and tallowed from stem to stern. It would be sad indeed if contemporary man were to cast the language ashore to lie forgotten in the sands of indifference.
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The illustrated encyclopedia of boating
Language: english
Author: Alan Lucas
Genre: Encyclopedia
Publisher: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Edition: First
ISBN: 0-684-15900-7
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 278
Description: THE ILLUSTRATED
ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF BOATING attempts to
bring the language of the sea into the vocabulary
of every man, woman, and child who
plays with boats. There is no absolute need to
know boating terms— we can bungle through
without it— but then there is no joy in remaining
ignorant. Sailors have a beautiful language
with a rich history thioroughly dunked in Cape
Horn salt and tarred and tallowed from stem
to stern. It would be sad indeed if contemporary
man were to cast the language ashore to
lie forgotten in the sands of indifference.
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