Sea Fever: A Seaside Companion: from buoys and bowlines to selkies and setting sail

(Paperback, Main)

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'What a fun book! Reading Sea Fever is enticing and intriguing, like watching floating treasure bob past your nose.' - Tristram Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator

Can you interpret the shipping forecast Do you know your flotsam from your jetsam Or who owns the foreshore Can you tie a half-hitch - or would you rather splice the mainbrace

Full of charming illustrations and surprising facts, Sea Fever provides the answers to all these and more. Mixing advice on everything from seasickness to righting a capsized boat with arcane marine lore, recipes, history, dramatic stories of daring-do and guides to the wildlife we share our shores with, even the most experienced ocean-dweller will find something in these pages to surprise and delight.

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'What a fun book! Reading Sea Fever is enticing and intriguing, like watching floating treasure bob past your nose.' - Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator

Author Bio

Meg Clothier has sailed from England to Alaska, worked as a journalist in London and Moscow, published two historical novels and run a London park cafe. She now lives, writes and grows vegetables on the Quantock Hills, but likes nothing better than getting cold, wet and hungry at the seaside, because then she can get warm and dry, drink gin and play Risk.
Her brother, Chris Clothier, has sailed singlehanded from Scotland to Norway, found himself upside down in a yacht in the Southern Ocean and won countless dinghy races using all the deviousness he fails to bring to the Risk board. Nowadays, he lives in London where he keeps a weather eye on other people's money - when he's not daydreaming about kitesurfing for breakfast and barbecued mackerel for tea.