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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Beavis, Bill; McCloskey, Richard
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| Publisher: |
Adlard Coles Nautical Press
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| Date: |
12/30/2014
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases--colorful, bizarre and surprising--and how they came ashore. For anyone with an interest in the sea & its traditions--landlubbers, boaters, historians, linguists.
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