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Post by Goblin, esq. on Feb 21, 2008 20:35:57 GMT -5
Another of my book reviews from the regency_reenact livejournal community: The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship by Darcy Lever. The author served in the Honourable East India Company as a young man, and was frustrated by the lack of written material on the subject, so he decided to write his own book. The first edition of this book was published in 1808, putting it right in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars. This printing is a Dover Books facsimile of the 1819 edition. This is marvellous book, with wonderfully detailed plates, on every aspect of rigging a ship, starting with descriptions (and diagrams) of basic knots, and going through rigging yards, constructing sails, to basic ship-handling, such as tacking and wearing. There are as many plates of diagrams as there are pages, making it incredibly well illustrated. www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486402207/
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