[PDF.22ze] THE SAILOR'S WORD: A Complete Dictionary of Nautical Terms from the Napoleonic and Victorian Navies

THE SAILOR'S WORD: A Complete Dictionary of Nautical Terms from the Napoleonic and Victorian Navies

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 | #3811554 in Books |  2008-07-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x1.60 x6.14l,2.43 | File type: PDF | 804 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great Reference Book|By Thelma Wickwere|Having recently been devouring the Patrick O'Brian "Jack Aubrey" series, I found myself in need of a specialized dictionary -- "The Sailor's Word" fits the bill. A large, rather unwieldy and expensive paperback, it is chock full of archaic terms you'll be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.

Unfortunately, it is not set up as we ar

Almost 800 pages . 12,764 Definitions. The Most Complete Reference of Its Kind It's one thing to compile a dictionary of nautical terms from the Age of Sail; but it's quite another when the people doing the compiling actually lived them. That is exactly the situation in The Sailor's Word. William Henry Smyth (1788-1865) was in the Royal Navy for over 25 years, rising from a ship's boy on a West India merchantman to a Royal Navy Admiral. In addition to commanding severa...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.THE SAILOR'S WORD: A Complete Dictionary of Nautical Terms from the Napoleonic and Victorian Navies   |  William Henry Smyth. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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