Last days of mast and sail: an essay in nautical comparative anatomy - Hardcover

MOORE, Alan

9780715348772: Last days of mast and sail: an essay in nautical comparative anatomy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715348779 ISBN 13: 9780715348772

Publisher: David & Charles, 1970

David & Charles [Published date: 1970]. Hard cover, 260 pp. Reprint of book originally published in 1925 at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. [From front jacket flap] An invaluable source of information on rigging practices in the last years of the commercial sailing ship in Britain, the Mediterranean and the Near East, this 'Essay in Nautical Comparative Anatomy', written by a founder of the Society for Nautical Research, has well stood the test of time and is today recognised as a classic work, unique in its field.Based largely upon the author's personal observation while serving as a Temporary Surgeon in the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1919, it is a fascinating and delightfully readable record of a now vanished technology--sailing for a living in boats and vessels rigged with no more sophisticated equipment than could be made by 'carpenter blacksmith and village ropewalk. The work is illustrated by over 200 authoritative drawings byR- Morton Nance and this edition prefaced with an introduction by Basil Greenhill,Director of the National Maritime Museum which includes some of the original sketch prepared by Alan Moore as a guide for his illustrator.

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