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Ships

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SHIPS AND THE SEA, there's nothing finer made.” When the Poet Laureate John Masefield, himself an old shellback, put these words into the mouth of his yearning ship's painter “Dauber”, he was expressing a feeling shared by countless ship lovers throughout the world, whether they be practical seamen, professional or amateur, or armchair sailors whose voyages are limited only by their imagination and their reading. Itis for men and women too such as these that this book has been written, and so well have the company of authors, research workers and editors done their work that they have covered in one superbly illustrated volume the whole general history of the ship, from the ancient craft of Egypt some five thousand years ago to the nuclear submarine of today. Encyclopaedic as it is, however, here is no mere catalogue. The facts are certainly there, condensed it is true, but as in the Bayeux Tapestry, skilfully woven together to tell in one continuous and absorbing narrative the story of when and where and why the ship developed as she did, describing the uses to which she has been put in peace and in war, and explaining how she is handled and navigated, both coastwise in pilotage waters, and out of sight of land across the trackless oceans of the world. One does not have to bean expert to enjoy this book, for it is written in language both simple and direct that the novice can understand, while being at the same time so full of detailed information that even the expert will find in it much that is new to him. He may not, of course, always agree with what he reads: but will that not be, for him, an added pleasure? Unless my memory serves me ill, I have never met a sailor who does not love to argue! For the ship lover, therefore, this is not a book to borrow from a library. It is one to buy, to study, and to cherish.

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623.82 LEW s

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Nederland : Life Science Library., 1970

Deskripsi Fisik

200 hlm. : ilus, berwarna ; 28 cm

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English

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623.82

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Ships

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