An A-Z of Sailing Terms (Oxford Reference S.) - Softcover

Dear, Ian

 
9780192861474: An A-Z of Sailing Terms (Oxford Reference S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192861476 ISBN 13: 9780192861474
Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Críticas

"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

Reseña del editor

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.

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Verlag
Oxford Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192861476
ISBN 13 
9780192861474
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
222
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