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Rope : how a bundle of twisted fibers became the backbone of civilization

Queeney, Tim2025
A sailor explores the history of rope through the story of civilisation--from Magellan's world-circling ships, to the 15th-century fleet of Admiral Zheng He, to Polynesian multihulls with crab claw sails, he shows how without rope, none of their adventurous voyages and discoveries would have been...
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