Backs Quote by Sarah Hymas

“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away…

— Terry Pratchett

“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?”

— Mary Oliver

“Even captains were pawns to the lords of the sea, who moved them – and sacrificed them – wither they would.”

— M. Kei

“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For a moment, he was still that man, a boy, in that country, in that harbor, with his back to the years that had…

— Paul Yoon

“How early the American cause turned to the sea.”

— Dudley W. Knox

“I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then,…

— Anonymous

“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would…

— George Eliot

“A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war…

— Joseph Conrad

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

— Homer