6.27.2005
When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to Pay
by Olivia Isil, 122pgs, paperback
Amazon site,
Official Grade: A
So I picked this book up in BC at the Nautical History Museum (which is awesome awesome, btw) because I am a nut for all things having to do with old-school sailing and tall, wooden ships. This book is brimming with nautical phrases and figures of speech that hail from the jargon of sailors or are thought-to. Some are as famous as 'Shiver me timbers!' and 'Avast!' but some are more obscure and some are everyday terms that you'd never have thought came from the sea.
Amazon site,
Official Grade: A
So I picked this book up in BC at the Nautical History Museum (which is awesome awesome, btw) because I am a nut for all things having to do with old-school sailing and tall, wooden ships. This book is brimming with nautical phrases and figures of speech that hail from the jargon of sailors or are thought-to. Some are as famous as 'Shiver me timbers!' and 'Avast!' but some are more obscure and some are everyday terms that you'd never have thought came from the sea.
Labels: genre: historical, genre: non-fiction, media: book
