Devil and the Deep: A Guide to Nautical Myths & Superstitions

By Chris Hillier, chris-hillier, Chris Hillier

Many books have been written about safety at sea, collision avoidance and safe boating, but how many of them can tell you how to avoid sea monsters? In this little reference book, Chris Hillier takes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713646454
• ISBN13: 9780713646450
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent research, bad copy editing ahead!

I enthusiastically recommend this very well-researched book because of its interesting folklore. However, I couldn't give it that fifth star because the punctuation is distracting. The author needs to research the proper use of the hyphen. Other than that caveat, it's an excellent book.

A Self Review

Well, it's a little weird writing this review myself, but you out there have had 4 years to do it and have now missed the chance to be the first! Having had the past few years to reflect on the book, I am still pretty happy with it as a first effort. Despite the tongue in cheek approach there really is a bit to be learned from my book - even if it's just to marvel at how superstitious the old time sailors were. My aim is to do another book sometime soon and I hope readers will enjoy the second as much as they seemed to have enjoyed the first!