David S.T. Blackmore is a veteran of the Merchant and Royal Navies. A dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Canada, he lives in Toronto.
"guides the reader through centuries of terms and idioms of the sea. Blackmore's dictionary should find a home on the reference shelves of libraries and in the hands of landlubber readers interested in the language of the sea. Recommended"--Choice; "easy-to-use and convenient...a useful work"--ARBA "the inquiring reader cannot fail to be impressed by the wide extent of the author's knowledge. The dictionary will be helpful to all readers who wish to inform themselves about the ways of sailors and the sea, and can be recommended to libraries with an interest in that important aspect of society"--Reference Reviews; "thumbs-up...for its overall treatment and accuracy"--The Bosun's Chronicle; "Blackmore's work is likely to become a standard reference for naval organization, practice, and idiom from the 1940s to the present day"--Nautical Research Journal; "a valuable contribution to the canon...by recognizing that sailors see the world differently to landlubbers, Blackmore has produced a work with much of interest to both"--The Naval Review.
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