NON-FICTION
GREAT MARITIME MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD edited by Peter Neill and Barbara Ehrenwald Krohn (Harry N. Abrams: $60; 304 pp.).
From scrimshaw to figureheads, from oil paintings to shipwreck salvage documentaries, here’s a feast for aficionados of seafaring art and lore: samples of the collections from 26 of the world’s great specialty museums. Above is the 18th-Century ship Aston Hall , from the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va.
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