Author: PHILLIPS-BIRT, DOUGLAS
Title: A History of Seamanship
Description: London, George Allen and Unwin. 1971, First. (ISBN: 0046230092). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format book of 320 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout. This magnificently illustrated book with 64 colour plates and over 170 black and white photograhs and drawings explores the whole art and science of seamanship from the instinctive methods of the earliest sailors to the sophisticated skills of modern yachtsmen and the electronic systems of the fastest liners and warships. Embracing ship design and construction, navigation, voyaging and ship building, it presents a complete history of the skills and knowledge that man has had to lean or invent in his long struggle for mastery of the seas. 20. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: History of Sailing, Seamanship 0046230092


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