Close to the wind : the Beaufort scale
Title:
Close to the wind : the Beaufort scale
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Describes Francis Beaufort's creation of the Beaufort wind force scale in 1810; presents fictional diary entries by a twelve-year-old nineteenth-century midshipman that describe conditions aboard ship at each of the scale's twelve levels; and includes facts on the construction of a man-of-war and the daily lives of English sailors.
Year Published:
2007
Physical Description:
[40] p. : ill.
Note:
21.00
Subject:
ISBN:
9780399243998
Publisher:
New York : Putnams, c2007.
