Direction: Guillaume Pô

Editorial Direction: Elisabeth Pegeon

Editing: Julie Quillien

Artistic Direction: Isabelle Mayer

Page Layout: Catherine Enault

Illustrations: Michel Diament

Production Management: Thierry Dubus

Manufacturing Monitoring: Marie Guibert

Proofreading (French edition): Alain Tardif

Translation: Andrea Jones Berasaluce

English Translation © 2020 by Skyhorse Publishing

Copyright © 2018 Michel Diament, Illustration

First Published in French as L’Essentiel des noeuds marins by Vagnon, an imprint of Fleurus Éditions, Paris, France, 2018 (ISBN: 979-1027102013).

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Cover design by Kai Texel

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Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-5927-5

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-5928-2

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