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'Date, time, wind, waves, pressure, temperature, and cloud cover.
Like pilots, roofers and mountain climbers, mariners are obsessed
with the weather, immersed in it as part of their daily calculus .
. . Make good decisions, mariners are fond of saying. If there were
a corollary to this, it might offer: When the weather gods show you
their cards, don't miss them' Weather can be the difference between
life and death for a sailor, something Captain Elliot Rappaport
knows very well, having spent almost his whole adult life at sea. A
professional ship's captain, with over thirty years of experience
sailing traditional vessels, 'tall ships', Captain Rappaport has
travelled around 100,000 sea miles, in all four hemispheres, and
spent a great many hours watching the weather unfold. In Reading
the Glass he shares all he has learned about the weather at sea,
gives us an inside look at the world of seafaring, a vocation much
more than a job, and shares some hard-won mariner's wisdom: if you
are headed for Greenland in July, expect at least one storm, and
wait until after Christmas to sail to New Zealand's South Island;
pack $3000-worth of fruit and veg for a two-month journey at sea;
and the most valuable member of the crew is first of all the
engineer, and secondly the cook! Reading the Glass is a gorgeous
blend of drily funny stories of life on a ship, the history of
seafaring, stories of explorers, discoveries, epic storms, and the
science of weather.
'Brimming with knowledge and experience . . . delightful' Daily
Telegraph 'Relatable, reflective, and humorous . . . a genuinely
immersive read' Countryman 'Date, time, wind, waves, pressure,
temperature, and cloud cover. Like pilots, roofers and mountain
climbers, mariners are obsessed with the weather, immersed in it as
part of their daily calculus . . . Make good decisions, mariners
are fond of saying. If there were a corollary to this, it might
offer: When the weather gods show you their cards, don't miss them'
Weather can be the difference between life and death for a sailor,
something Captain Elliot Rappaport knows very well, having spent
almost his whole adult life at sea. A professional ship's captain,
with over thirty years of experience sailing traditional vessels,
'tall ships', Captain Rappaport has travelled around 100,000 sea
miles, in all four hemispheres, and spent a great many hours
watching the weather unfold. In Reading the Glass he shares all he
has learned about the weather at sea, gives us an inside look at
the world of seafaring, a vocation much more than a job, and shares
some hard-won mariner's wisdom: if you are headed for Greenland in
July, expect at least one storm, and wait until after Christmas to
sail to New Zealand's South Island; pack $3000-worth of fruit and
veg for a two-month journey at sea; and the most valuable member of
the crew is first of all the engineer, and secondly the cook!
Reading the Glass is a gorgeous blend of drily funny stories of
life on a ship, the history of seafaring, stories of explorers,
discoveries, epic storms, and the science of weather. 'An
extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville . . . I can't recommend
this book highly enough' Mark Vanhoenacker
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