Boats, boffins and bowlines : the stories of sailing inventors and innovations
Drower, G. M. F. (George M. F.)2005
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Revealing the extraordinary stories behind the apparatus which many sailors take for granted, this text is a collection of stories discussing the invention of navigation lights and the compass.
Main title:
Boats, boffins and bowlines : the stories of sailing inventors and innovations / George Drower ; foreword by Ben Ainslie.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud : Sutton, 2005.
Collation:
xiv, 242 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-231) and index.
ISBN:
9780750933643 (hbk)
Dewey class:
623.820284A623.820284DRO
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
457414
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