Author: John LeatherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907206320
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author: John Leather
Author: Jamie ClaySwatchways and Little Ships
Author: Maurice GriffithsPublisher: Sheridan House Incorporated
ISBN: 9780851774268
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
For over fifty years Maurice Griffiths cruised a variety of small yachts amongst the rivers and creeks of the Thames Estuary and round the coasts of Suffolk, Essex and Kent. In this classic book he tells of the boats he has owned, and shows how the experience gained turned him into a dedicated yacht designer.
Author: Don Holm
Author: Richard PowellThe Compleat Cruiser
Author: L. Francis HerreshoffPublisher: Seafarer Books
ISBN: 9780850364224
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Famed yacht designer and author L. Francis Herreshoff takes us on family style cruises in American waters, during which all sorts of boats and boating skills are explained while they are used. He tells about the adventures of the crews of the catboat Piscator, the ketch Viator, and the engineless whaleboat-style ketch Rozinante. There are anecdotes and examples and a wide variety of boat lore in each chapter, as well as adventures, races and coastwide cruises and historical harbors to visit.
Blindsight
Author: Peter WattsPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The American Boy's Handy Book
Author: Daniel Carter BeardPublisher: Derrydale Press
ISBN: 1461661331
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Each summer, millions of children complain, "There's nothing to do." Originally published in 1888, The American Boy's Handy Book resoundingly challenges this age-old dilemma by providing a huge number of ideas for fun and instructional projects for young boys. Everything from camping and kite building to raising dogs and building boats is detailed for the would-be adventurer and do-it your-selfer.
Capt. Nat Herreshoff
Author: L. Francis HerreshoffPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493082043
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Nathanael G. Herreshoff was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. He is creditied with the introduction of more new devices in the design of boats than any other man, and the great yachts that he designed for the successful defense of the America's cup caught the imagination of the world.
