Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization - Hardcover
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization - Hardcover
by Tim Queeney (Author)
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025
A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod
Author Biography
TIM QUEENEY is the editor of Ocean Navigator, a magazine for offshore voyager. Tim's work has appeared in Professional Mariner, American History, and Aviation History. He has had short stories published in the crime anthology Landfall, Best New England Crime Stories 2018 and in the speculative anthology A Land Without Mirrors. Tim live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and a rescue dog, Frankie. A life long sailor, he teaches celestial navigation, radar navigation and coastal piloting ashore -- where he tied plenty of knots and handled many a rope.
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