Ships In Bottles: A Step By Step Guide To A Venerable Nautical Craft

Ships In Bottles: A Step By Step Guide To A Venerable Nautical Craft by HUBBARD, Donald. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780070308275.

"In an era when sea voyages lasted months and even years, off-watch sailormen occupied themselves creating bits of nautical art from whatever raw material came to hand -- wood, rope, yarn, and of course, on whaling ships, the teeth and bones of whales and walrus. It is not surprising then that an empty bottle might have piqued the imagination of some long-gone salt and led him to devise the way of displaying miniature ships described in this book."