Reading the Glass - A Sailor's Stories of Weather

Informationen zum Autor Elliot Rappaport has sailed as a captain in the United States maritime industry since 1992, involved primarily in the training of other mariners aboard an assortment of traditional sailing ships. Presently a faculty member at Maine Maritime Academy, preparing cadets for professional careers at sea, he has also worked extensively at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, an organization that offers shipboard programs in ocean science and leadership to college undergraduates. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Maine, Elliot lives in coastal Maine when not at sea. Reading the Glass is his first book. Klappentext A fascinating insight into the science of weather and the strange, wild and wonderful world of life at sea Vorwort A fascinating insight into the science of weather and the strange, wild and wonderful world of life at sea Zusammenfassung A fascinating insight into the science of weather and the strange, wild and wonderful world of life at sea

Product details

• Authors: Elliot Rappaport
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9781529369335
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-6933-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Sailing, Memoirs, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / General, NATURE / Weather, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical, NATURE / Seasons, Meteorology & climatology, Weather and climate: general interest, Meteorology and climatology, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Sailing