Book of the Week: A Nautical Odyssey



7:47 PM Tue 26 Oct 2010 GMT
'A Nautical Odyssey' .
If ever there was a book that the lover of fine sailing vessels and fine art would want, it has to be the splendidly produced 'A Nautical Odyssey: An Illustrated Maritime History from Cook to Shackleton'. When it arrived in the mail I had to 'stop everything' and spend the next half hour browsing its pages. It must be one of the most gorgeously produced maritime books of all time. It's 169 pages of the work of David Bell, one of our finest marine artists, who has been a painter of ships and the sea for over 40 years. The ...


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by Nancy Knudsen





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