The Classic Text for Amateur Boatbuilders
Available December 2008!
The guidebook that launched a thousand boats. Probably many more. One of the most concise guides ever written to take the amateur boatbuilder through every step of the design and building process. Not a scan of the original, but newly edited for better graphics and readability. Originally written by Adrian Neison, Practical Boat Building for Amateurs was later revised by famed designer Dixon Kemp.
Practical Boat Building for Amateurs
Adrian Neison, Dixon Kemp
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First published in 1918, the course was conceived by Van Gaasbeek at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in response to the desperate need for new ships on the eve of the United States' entry into World War I. Van Gaasbeek developed the program "to assist the great army of house carpenters and other woodworkers in transferring from their usual occupations to the wooden boat and ship building industries." He saw the book "as a response to the demand caused by shortage of skilled labor in these industries."
A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building
Richard M. Van Gaasbeek
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This famous collection of Maugham's South Sea stories includes "Rain" which was adapted into a play and film script. This collection also includes "The Pool" and "Macintosh," two stories that show some influence from Louis Becke among others, as well as "The Fall of Edward Barnard", "Red", and "Honolulu" plus two vignettes: "The Pacific" and "Envoi."
The Trembling of a Leaf
W. Somerset Maugham
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Supercargo, trader, beachcomber, and perhaps pirate, Louis Becke knew the South Seas of the late 19th Century like few others. His second book's stories range across the South Seas from the Marshalls to lonely Pitcairn Island on the other. They tell, as he once said, "of those restless wanderers who range the Pacific in search of the fortune they always mean to gain, but which never comes to them, except in some few instances." Not for the faint of heart, but these tales illuminate the desperately cruel clash of colonialism and native tradition.
The Ebbing of the Tide
Louis Becke
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The first book by the "father" of modern kayaking and canoe camping. Join MacGregor as he sails and paddles alone in a double-ended canoe on the lakes and rivers of Germany, France, and Switzerland through backwater streams, over waterfalls, past whirlpools, and into the history of the paddling sports. The paperback edition features an introduction by kayaking historian Brian Kologe.
A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe
John MacGregor
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Are you a business professional who wants to supplement a retirement income? A struggling writer who needs to add clips for cash? This guide to often overlooked writing opportunities is for you. Marketing, researching, and writing strategies in simple language by a man who has published more than a million words in trade magazines.
Writing for Trade Magazines
Kendall Hanson
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