Year: 1973 Language: english Author: Villiers Alan Genre: History Publisher: National Geographic Society Edition: 2 nd Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 444 Description: Captain Villiers, who has sailed the seas in Arab dhows, in square-riggers, in World War II landing craft, and in the Nuclear Ship Savannah, has packed these 436 pages with narratives as fresh as an easterly, pulsing with adventure. Learn how pharaohs built their ships; how the steering oar evolved into the rudder; how mariners navigate and seamen live under sail and steam. Glimpse ships of the future, and the undersea world revealed by daring oceanographers. Let yachtsman Carleton Mitchell show you how to choose, sail, and care for your boat —how to be skipper as well as armchair voyager. So popular that its first edition sold 300,000 copies, Men, Ships, and the Sea now appears in this extraordinary new edition with 423 illustrations, including 18 maps.
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Men, Ships and the Sea
Language: english
Author: Villiers Alan
Genre: History
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Edition: 2 nd
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 444
Description: Captain Villiers, who has sailed the seas in Arab dhows, in square-riggers, in World War II landing craft, and in the Nuclear Ship Savannah, has packed these 436 pages with narratives as fresh as an easterly, pulsing with adventure.
Learn how pharaohs built their ships; how the steering oar evolved into the rudder; how mariners navigate and seamen live under sail and steam. Glimpse ships of the future, and the undersea world revealed by daring oceanographers. Let yachtsman Carleton Mitchell show you how to choose, sail, and care for your boat —how to be skipper as well as armchair voyager.
So popular that its first edition sold 300,000 copies, Men, Ships, and the Sea now appears in this extraordinary new edition with 423 illustrations, including 18 maps.
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