Add this copy of Seamanship to cart. $44.21, very good condition, Sold by Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Novato, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Hyperion Books.
Add this copy of Seamanship 1862 to cart. $61.99, good condition, Sold by Koster's Collectible Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Farmingville, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Unwin Brothers Limited.
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Good++, Good+ 8VO, B/W Illus, Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Navy blue cloth boards with title in gold on spine. Light edge wear and bumping. Foredge soil and foxing. Light endpaper soil. Text pages are bumped at outer corners. Blue illustrated dust jacket is chipped and worn at corners and spine ends. Edge wear creasing, light soil. Looks better when placed in protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
Add this copy of Seamanship. 1862 to cart. $84.00, very good condition, Sold by Aquila Books, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1979 by Gresham Books.
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Very good. Facsimile Edition. xi, [1], 224pp. Octavo. Illustrated with plates from engravings and drawings in text. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in dust jacket. very good.
Add this copy of Seamanship to cart. $84.17, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Hyperion Books.
I'm a writer. When I'm published, I'll say I'm an author. In addition, I'm a docent at the Mariners' Museum in Hampton, Virginia. I write sea stories because I believe the sea is a crucible for testing and revealing character and the merchant sailing ships of the mid to late 19th Century are perfect settings for this. It's bloody cold around Cape Stiff!
One of the greatest challenges in writing about tall ships is to understand how they were sailed. This understanding should include the perspectives of both the ship's officers and the before-the-mast jacks.
Nares is a manual written to help teach fundamental seamanship to all recruits of the Royal Navy in 1862. It's lanquage is far more modern and thus more penetrable than similar texts written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
For anyone interested in square rigged seamanship, I would first recommend reading "Eagle Seamanship." Once you understand the basics covered there, I would next read "Seamanship in the Age of Sail." Once you've gone this far, Nares, early editions of "Knight's Seamanship" and, the works of Harold Underhill, Brown, Son and Ferguson are next. I also recommend Luce's "Seamanship."
To me, besides "Undo this button" from "King Lear," one of the greatest lines in literature comes from Conrad. His ship's master commands, "Wear ship."
