"A valuable and lively resource. Jeans sorts truth from fiction with a sure hand and does full justice to both." —Peter Stanford, President Emeritus, National Maritime ...

This book uncovers the nautical origins of words used in everyday speech.

From hardy Nantucket whalers to Elizabethan sea dogs, from grizzled fishermen in Nova Scotia to the crews of clipper ships, the men who made their living on the sea left as ...

Provides an account of an extreme non-stop sailing race around the world, a competition that attracted competitors willing to risk millions of dollars and their lives to voyage ...