How to Build a Boat: A Father, his Daughter and the Unsailed Sea

✍ Scribed by Gornall, Jonathan

• Book ID: 110447673
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781471164781

✦ Synopsis

One man learns the ancient skills of boat-building to connect with fatherhood.

How to Build a Boat is the story of a thoroughly unskilled modern man who, inspired by his love of the sea and what it has taught him about life, sets out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift for his newborn daughter. It is, he recognises, a ridiculously quixotic challenge for a man who, with a family and mortgage to support, knows little about woodworking and even less about boat-building. He isn't even sure what type of boat he should build, what type of wood he should use, the tools he will need or, come to that, where on earth he will build it. He has much to consider, and even more to learn.
But, undaunted by his ignorance, he embarks on a voyage of rediscovery, determined to navigate his way back to a time when a man could fashion his future and leave his mark on history using only time-honoured skills and the ancient tools and materials at...
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