An Evening with Tim Queeney, Author of Rope and Former Editor of Ocean Navigator Magazine

An evening with Tim Queeney, former editor of Ocean Navigator and author of Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization.

In Rope, Tim Queeney, who knows more about rope and its importance to humankind than most, takes readers on a ride through the history of rope and the way it weaves itself through the story of civilization. From Magellan’s world-circling ships and the 15th-century fleet of Admiral Zheng He to Polynesian multihulls with crab claw sails, he shows how without rope, none of their adventurous voyages and discoveries would have been possible. Time traveling, he describes the building of the pyramids, the Roman Coliseum, Hagia Sofia, Notre Dame, the Sultan Hasan Mosque, the Brooklyn Bridge, and countless other constructions that would not have been possible without rope.

Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.

Registration required.

Tim Queeney is the former editor of Ocean Navigator, a magazine for offshore voyagers. His work has appeared in Professional Mariner, American History and Aviation History magazines. A life-long sailor, he has taught celestial navigation, radar navigation and coastal piloting ashore and at sea — where he tied plenty of knots and handled many a rope. His short stories appeared in the crime anthology Landfall: Best New England Crime Stories 2018 and in the speculative fiction anthology, A Land Without Mirrors. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and a rescue dog, Frankie.