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Sea Fever: A British Maritime Miscellany

Hardback

Main Details

Title Sea Fever: A British Maritime Miscellany
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Meg Clothier
By (author) Chris Clothier
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 222,Width 144
Category/GenreShips and shipping
Boating
ISBN/Barcode 9781788161619
ClassificationsDewey:941.00946
Audience
General
Edition Main
Illustrations integrated line drawings

Publishing Details

Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Imprint Profile Books Ltd
Publication Date 20 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Can you interpret the shipping forecast? Do you know your flotsam from your jetsam? Or who owns the foreshore? Can you tie a half-hitch - or would you rather splice the mainbrace? Full of charming illustrations and surprising facts, Sea Fever provides the answers to all these and more. Mixing advice on everything from seasickness to righting a capsized boat with arcane marine lore, recipes, history, dramatic stories of daring-do and guides to the wildlife we share our shores with, even the most experienced ocean-dweller will find something in these pages to surprise and delight.

Author Biography

Meg Clothier has sailed from England to Alaska, worked as a journalist in London and Moscow, published two historical novels and run a London park cafe. She now lives, writes and grows vegetables on the Quantock Hills, but likes nothing better than getting cold, wet and hungry at the seaside, because then she can get warm and dry, drink gin and play Risk. Her brother, Chris Clothier, has sailed singlehanded from Scotland to Norway, found himself upside down in a yacht in the Southern Oceanandwon countless dinghy races using all the deviousness he fails to bring to the Risk board. Nowadays, he lives in London where he keeps a weather eye on other people's money - when he's not daydreaming about kitesurfing for breakfast and barbecued mackerel for tea.

Reviews

What a fun book! Reading Sea Fever is enticing and intriguing, like watching floating treasure bob past your nose. * Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator *