Wooden ships: the enduring romance of George Luzier's classic boats.
When George Luzier, 80, was a young boy in Sarasota, the only way to have a boat was to build one yourself. So when he was 14, under the watchful eye of his yacht captain uncle Bob, Luzier built his first boat under a pine tree on Hudson Bayou,...

A hands-on view of the colonial economy.
A macro-economic study of the early economy of Australia, while historically important, is tedious reading. It is altogether different to enter the daily life of producers of the time and examine the economy from their point of view. The needs of the population were primitive but their few needs...

Elizabeth Ridel, ed. L'Heritage Maritime des Vikings en Europe de l'Ouest: Colloque International de la Hague (Flottemanville-Hague, 30 Septembre-3 Octobre 1999).
Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2002. The twenty, contributors to this handsomely produced volume, equal numbers of French and foreign scholars, gathered on the Norman peninsula of La Hague to explore the Scandinavian impact on the coasts of early medieval Europe. La Hague is judged to have...

Cheryl A. Ward. Sacred and secular: ancient Egyptian ships and boats.
(Archaeological Institute of America Monographs [n.s.] No. 5). xiv+162 pages, 79 figures, 16 tables. 2000. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum; 0-7872-7182-9 hardback $77.75. Egypt preserves a tremendously rich resource of ancient ship and boat images depicted in the tombs and temples of the pharaohs. Since the excavation...

THE LATEST WAVE.
The editor of Boating Magazine reports on the best of the carefree new luxury boats. ha-da-da-da-click, wha-da-da-da-click. Do you associate the balking of a hard-to-start engine, rather than the laugh of gulls, with a day of boating? Do memories of weekends spent painting, removing stains...

Pushing the boats out: the boat builders of Salaya on the coast of Gujarat, India, have been shifting cargo around the Arabian Sea for centuries. And business is booming: these wooden vessels are being built bigger, in greater numbers and at higher costs than in any time in living memory.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just a few hours after leaving the shelter of the Iranian coast, Haroon Sanghar, captain, or tindal, of the Faize Makdumi, gives the order to hoist the sail. 'Fare ha kar,' he yells and squints forward, watching the triangle of white cotton unfurl until he...

Hyperion Books.
Hyperion Books 114-5th Ave., New York NY 10011 www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com Pamela Duncan Edward's Ms. Bitsy Bat's Kindergarten (0786806699, $15.99) is a lovely, recommended pick for ages beyond the kindergarten range. Henry Cole's fun animal drawings capture a new teacher at the kindergarten and the...

Reclassifying class in today's Britain.
WE are not hearing very much these days about the good old British working class. The closing of the coal mines, which eighty years ago employed over a million workers, the collapse of the textile, ship-building and car-making industries, the bankruptcy or expatriation of factories which on their own...

Scarfing the yard with words (Fostbroe[eth]ra saga): shipbuilding imagery in Old Norse poetics.
IN CHAPTER TWENTY OF Fostbroe[eth]ra saga, [THORN]ormo[eth]r has been allowed to leave the king's court in Norway on a ship for Greenland with the mission of seeking revenge on the men who killed Porgeirr, the other sworn or blood brother of the saga title, who was also the king's...

Boat-building and its social context in early Egypt: interpretations from the First Dynasty boat-grave cemetery at Abydos.
Introduction Studying the origins and techniques of boat-building provides new data for examining social organisation, regional trade and technological conservatism in a nascent state society. A total of 22 boats have been found in Egyptian contexts dated between c. 3050 and 450 BC, either whole or disassembled...