Mariners and others who go down to the sea from Shanghai and follow its lanes from the frozen north io the sweltering tropics will welcome the appearance of their annual manual, the China Coasters' Tide Book—late this year because of the war. Its production is the work of many hands, for the sections dealing with the different ports from Dairen to Canton—there are seventeen in all—each has its own author, while the times of sunrise and moonrise, port tide tables, astronomical data, ete, are each computed by their own specialists. But to the layman as well as to the specialist this manual of the sea has its appeal. Gaudy pages of house flags, signal codes, and weather charts dot the pages of the Tide Book; there is a river chart of the Whangpoo from Woosung to beyond Lunghua, and sea lore on typhoons, the wind and weather, and ocean currents. A book that answers many questions asked by the ocean traveller and one that every yachtsman should have in his bunk,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.