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Imagine what they could do to this lightweight, ramshackle raft constructed by a crazy Norwegian who wouldn’t take no for an answer.
Bear Grylls • True Grit
escarpment
John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
asperity
Robert Harris • The Fear Index
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Blind leads—wherein you withhold the name of the person you are writing about and reveal it after a paragraph or two—range from slightly cheap to very cheap.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
I feel compelled to recommend William Van Dorn’s The Oceanography of Seamanship as a comprehensive and immensely readable text on ships and the sea.