Knots and Splices

Shows how to tie useful and indispensable knots, bends and splices. This pocket-sized book on rope and wire work, splices, and all types of knots, contains explanation of how to achieve the knot or splice, and is accompanied by clear colour photographs of each stage, making learning easy.

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Knots & Splices is the bestselling truly pocket-sized book on rope and wire work, splices, and all types of knots, and has been continuously in print for almost 50 years. It has become the basic handbook showing how to tie the most useful and indispensable knots, bends and splices and has sold worldwide to sailors, campers, scouts, climbers, fishermen and outdoors people. Each straightforward explanation of how to achieve the knot or splice is accompanied by clear colour photographs of each stage, making learning easy. Thoroughly revised and updated by Colin Jarman, author of the highly successful Knots in Use for sailors, this book is essential for anyone interested in learning how to tie knots simply and quickly.