Reading the Glass av Elliot Rappaport

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<p><b><i>''</i>Brimming with knowledge and experience . . . delightful'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>''Relatable, reflective, and humorous . . . a genuinely immersive read'' <i>Countryman</i></b><br><b><i><br>''Date, time, wind, waves, pressure, temperature, and cloud cover. </i><i>Like pilots, roofers and mountain climbers, mariners are obsessed with the weather, immersed in it as part of their daily calculus . . . Make good decisions, mariners are fond of saying. If there were a corollary to this, it might offer: When the weather gods show you their cards, don''t miss them''</i></b><br><br>Weather can be the difference between life and death for a sailor, something Captain Elliot Rappaport knows very well, having spent almost his whole adult life at sea.<br><br>A professional ship''s captain, with over thirty years of experience sailing traditional vessels, ''tall ships'', Captain Rappaport has travelled around 100,000 sea miles, in all four hemispheres, and spent a great ma