title: Mariner's Book of Days 2014
author:  Peter H. Spectre 
description: <span><span><span>A keeper well after the year is over and done. </span></span></span> (<i>Sailing</i>)<br /><br /><span><span><span>[Spectre] is able to assemble an impressively eclectic mix of quotations on whatever nautical topic he has chosen for the left-hand page and also knows exactly where to go in his vast collection to find an arcane yet apposite event or anniversary to celebrate for each of the seven days shown on the right-hand page and can keep on doing that a further 358 times. No wonder </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Mariner&#39;s Book of Days</span><span> seems to have reached the status of a minor cult. </span></span></span> (<i>WaterCraft</i>)<br /><br /><span><span><span>Stumped on a gift for the boater in your life? Consider </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Mariner&#39;s Book of Days</span><span>. </span></span></span> (<i>Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal</i>)
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  [Title Page](index.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Table of Contents](toc.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Copyright](copyright-page01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Dedication](dedication01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [I](ch01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [II](ch02.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [III](ch03.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [IV](ch04.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [About the Author](colophon01.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First Mariner Books edition 2000
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright © 1980 by Anita Desai
  
  
    
  
  
  all rights reserved
  
  
    
  
  
  For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write
  to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue
  South, New York, New York 10003.
  
  
    
  
  
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  _The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:_
  
  
  Desai, Anita, date.  
  
  
  Clear light of day / Anita Desai. — 1st Mariner books ed.  
  
  
  p. cm.  
  
  
  “A Mariner book.”  
  
  
  isbn-13: 97