Wooden Boat and Ship Building Will Extend Historical Book Line

Reprint of the 1918 book will help extend Dixon-Price's line of inexpensive paperback reprints of traditional and historical books on wooden boat and ship building. Publisher Kendall Hanson said that Dixon-Price will continue to look for good reprint opportunities to serve a very small market of traditional wooden boat and ship enthusiasts, builders and historians.

A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building joins Boat-Building and Boating by D.C. Beard and Small Boat Building by H.W. Patterson in the building category, which is complemented by books on boating, such as A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe by John MacGregor, and books by and about "wanderers who love islands," such as Confessions of a Beachcomber by E.J. Banfield and the fictional By Reef and Palm by the well-known 19th Century South Seas vagabond Louis Becke.

This new edition of Wooden Boat and Ship Building includes all of Van Gaasbeek's original photographs, drawings and tables, including the offset tables for building "The Standard American Wooden Steamship," a wooden cargo vessel which Van Gaasbeek helped develop through the Emergency Fleet Corporation which was built for war-time use by the United States Shipping Board whose photographs of the process are used extensively in the book.

The new paperback edition became available online in June 2007 from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other online sellers, or by special order through local booksellers. More information on Dixon-Price Publishing's line of nautical books is available at http:// www.dixonprice.com.