Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A random collection of nautical trivia that will turn you into the most loved (or most hated) person on the boat Did you know??..That Britain's coast line is endless? That the brother of Ernest Hemingway founded a nation? How to inseminate a sea urchin? That some seamounts are named after Tolkien figures? How much foam is on the sea, right now? Why the sea is blue? How far is the horizon? Most of the time, we see only the world's surface, but there are stories behind every corner, some just funny, some very strange (there a people, who believe we are living inside the globe, not outside ?and science cannot prove them wrong ) and some important (how to save the world for example.) You are on holiday at the coast and you don?t know how to entertain your kids? Tell them a story. In this book there are more than 200.
Synopsis
Why did the Vikings wear horns? What exactly do fish hear? Why is the ocean blue? These questions and many, many more are answered in this fun and informative gift book, a Schott's Miscellany for the maritime crowd.
Do you know how to inseminate a sea urchin; how much foam is on the sea right now; how far away the horizon actually is?
If not, after reading this book of ocean trivia--some of it useful, some of it trivial, some of it funny, most of it strange--you certainly will. A random collection of nautical facts and miscellany, The Little Book of the Sea will turn you into the most loved--or hated --person on the boat.