The Sailor's World

by Arthur Beiser

Hardcover book with dust jacket. 250 pages with many color and black & white photos and drawings. photography by Stanley Rosenfeld.

251 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Arthur Beiser is an American physicist and geophysicist .

Arthur Beiser studied physics and received his PhD from New York University , where he later became an associate professor of physics. He was a Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where he focused on cosmic rays and magnetohydrodynamics in geophysics and astrophysics . He worked both theoretically and experimentally, taking part in expeditions to the observation of cosmic rays and magnetic phenomena to Alaska and the Pacific.

He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and chaired the Explorers Club's Committee on Space Exploration .

Beiser is known for numerous physics textbooks, but also published books on geology and sailing (he is a passionate sailor who sailed around Cape Horn and twice crossed the Atlantic in his sailing boat). His wife Germaine Beiser is also an author and co-author of physics textbooks.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not gonna lie, The Sailor's World is the reason I called my dad last weekend. Arthur Beiser writes about fathers and sons with a kind of clumsy tenderness, the awkward silences, the half-jokes, the "you doing okay?" that really means "I love you," and the scene in the garage, where neither of them can say what they mean, wrecked me. It does get a little sentimental near the end. For anybody with a complicated parent. Skip it if you'd rather not feel anything on your commute.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

There’s no sugary coating in The Sailor's World; Beiser, Arthur lays out the cold facts of how cultural institutions operate as compliance engines.