Learn how pharaohs built their ships; how the steering oar evolved into the rudder; how mariners navigate and seamen live under sail and steam. Glimpse ships of the future, and the undersea world revealed by daring oceanographers. Let yachtsman Carleton Mitchell show you how to choose, sail, and care for your boat -- how to be a skipper as well as armchair voyager.
436 pages, 423 illustrations with 294 in full color
Publisher : National Geographic Society (January 1, 1973)
Language : English
Hardcover : 436 pages
ISBN-10 : 0870440187
ISBN-13 : 9780870440182