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Small Boats on Green Waters: A Treasury of Good Reading on Coastal and Inland Cruising

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You would think from the cover that this is about small sailing vessels doing interesting things. The first third of the book is about kayak/canoe trips, from the wind in the willows to other stories. The middle third of the book is a story about the war of 1812, black beard the pirate, a Mississippi riverboat, Lewis and Clark, etc. The last third are sailing stories. So quite a potporri, most well written, but many having little to do with the title of the book, small boats on green water.

Subtitle: "A Treasury of Good Reading on Coastal and Inland Cruising", and that is exactly what it is -- none of it on the raging sea. An interesting and well chosen collection of short accounts from eighteenth through twenty-first century writers, some edited to remove tedious administrative detail, others containing sufficient detail to complete a picture. This is the sort of book that one need not read through in any particular order but which can be picked up in any idle moment and returned to again and again.