that nautical almanac i was talking about

Apologies for writing this one so late - as you know, we've been in amsterdam for a wedding, and have been busy packing and meeting up with friends here as well..

but as promised, here is the almanac that we found in the book fair; pls see the previous entry for more info on our sunday morning book adventure last weekend..

here you see the front cover of the almanac...its from 1962, and is clearly quite weathered..
yup! its a ad for singapore in the 60s on the back cover, with a six digit telephone number!! must have cost Motion, Smith &Son quite a bit to advertise back then!


Look! whats this?

its seems really archaic to have measurements of distances in a book for reference - what with the internet and probably a computer that logs all this information now in the year 2008


you'll see that Bristol to Singapore is 8 000 nm via the Suez and 11 000nm via Cape Town...

amazing stuff ya? there's also illustrations of measuring sextets and old-skool ads for various services and parts for the shipping industry..all quite cool..