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B5 - A Mariners Miscellany

• Author: Steven Jones BSC Hon MNI.
• Publisher: The Nautical Institute.
• & ISBN 1 870077 75 X

A Mariner's Miscellany, an engaging compendium of those things we love about boats, ships, and everything surrounding them. The product of the author's lifelong fascination with the sea, it is a voyage in time across the oceans, a headlong dive into a culture without geographical or political boundaries, a guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of a way of life that is as old as civilization. A Mariner's Miscellany is about the tangible and the intangible. It is about ships, boats, anchors, rope, ballast, equipment, tools, hardware, and gear. It is also about history, traditions, literature, poetry, legends, lore, superstitions, language,