A History of Sailing in 100 Objects
Barry Pickthall
A History of Sailing in 100 Objects
Barry Pickthall
Hardback / bound
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English
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Description
A whimsical, inventive, comprehensive and scientific volume of sailing knowledge.
A whimsical, inventive, comprehensive and scientific volume of sailing knowledge.
A delightful anthology of vignettes about all sorts of things of interest and importance to leisure, commercial and naval mariners. It has much wider appeal than just sailing and yachting.
A potpourri of all things nautical with informative text supporting each picture.
This photographic tour through the ages is a captivating look at mankind's history at sea.
So much more than the sum of its parts... the true joy of this book is to dip in and out of it again and again.
Book of the month. Beautifully illustrated and insightfully written, it offers a thoughtful tour of how we sail today and why.
Barry Pickthall is an award winning yachting journalist, photographer and author. A former boatbuilder and naval architect, he was yachting correspondent for The Times for 20 years, and he has written 20 books about sailing, including Blue Water Sailing, Going Foreign, Buying a Yacht and Buying a Motorboat, all published by Adlard Coles Nautical.
A whimsical, inventive, comprehensive and scientific volume of sailing knowledge.
A delightful anthology of vignettes about all sorts of things of interest and importance to leisure, commercial and naval mariners. It has much wider appeal than just sailing and yachting.
A potpourri of all things nautical with informative text supporting each picture.
This photographic tour through the ages is a captivating look at mankind's history at sea.
So much more than the sum of its parts... the true joy of this book is to dip in and out of it again and again.
Book of the month. Beautifully illustrated and insightfully written, it offers a thoughtful tour of how we sail today and why.
Barry Pickthall is an award winning yachting journalist, photographer and author. A former boatbuilder and naval architect, he was yachting correspondent for The Times for 20 years, and he has written 20 books about sailing, including Blue Water Sailing, Going Foreign, Buying a Yacht and Buying a Motorboat, all published by Adlard Coles Nautical.