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Re: Book - Wind, Sand and Stars
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Aug 20, 10:17 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Aug 20, 10:17 -0700
Before reading chapter 4 THE ELEMENTS it is recommended that Joseph Conrad's TYPHOON be read first. Here is a link to TYPHOON:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1142/1142-h/1142-h.htm
Greg Rudzinski
P.S. Chapter 3 THE TOOL is most interesting and could very well apply to the sextant as to an airplane or boat.