On a boat, each piece, rope, part of the boat, has a distinct name. The navy has its vocabulary. This sometimes makes it inaccessible to the uninitiated who feel excluded.
Jean Merrien's Dictionnaire de la mer is the reference for understanding and recognizing all the subtleties of the navy. Written between 1944 and 1958 (14 years!) this book gathers nearly 4000 marine terms. A very rare work in occasion (when one has a Merrien, one keeps it!), this new edition will give the occasion to all the readers to discover the richness of the maritime language. Led by Dominique Le Brun, through annotations at the bottom of the definitions, this reissue facilitates the rapprochement between the traditional sailing navy originally described by Merrien and the current yachting that we know.
This 900-page volume is intended for everyone, whether or not they practice, passionate about the traditional navy or modern pleasure boating. You dive in like in immersion. Like a classic dictionary, you can search for the definition of a word or simply leaf through it and stop at any definition. The illustrations (black and white drawings) bring an outdated lightness to the whole.
Buy it Dictionary of the sea by Jean Merrien
For my part, I plunged into it with delight, discovering the origin of certain terms, linking with pleasure the traditional navy of the past and the modern pleasure that I practice. At first, I was afraid of the old-fashioned explanations, but the details of the definitions and the links between them offered me a most pleasant navigation.
A book that now stays on my desk to immerse me regularly. Buy it Dictionary of the sea by Jean Merrien
Buy it Dictionary of the sea by Jean Merrien
- Omnibus Publishing
- 14 x 20.5 cm
- 904 pages
