A funny illustrated book, written with fertile imagination, which humorously redefines nautical terms and includes puns, limericks and other light verse.
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The Sailor's Hornbook, or ABC,
By jack lewis (california) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sailor's Hornbook: or ABC with a Vermiform Appendix on Racing Terminology (Paperback)
This funny book should be of interest to sailors and other persons with maritime interests, as well as to those interested in words. The humor is dry and sometimes satirical; some of the definitions are really off the wall.The illustrations are good as is the light verse. The whole book is imaginative and facetious and the author draws from wide-ranging knowledge: sailing, oceanography, science, literature, poetry. The section on racing terminology is hilarious. There is a definition of Racing Rules ("which should be written clearly") which, on purpose, is totally and ridiculously incomprehensible. I hope O'Neal will write similar books on other sports.
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A . A prefix applying to many nautical terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
boat speak, boat drinks, celestial navigation, nautical terms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A . A prefix applying to many nautical terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
boat speak, boat drinks, celestial navigation, nautical terms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Great Britain New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 2
books:
- The Theory of Relativity: & Other Essays by Albert Einstein on page 65
- Ancient Mariner Pb (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on page 2
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