THE ART OF COARSE SAILING by Michael Green   
About the Book: 
‘A Coarse Sailor according to Michael Green is someone who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts ‘For God’s Sake, turn left,’ while Coarse Sailing is not mucking around in boats by boating around in muck. To support his definitions, he recalls such incidents as the time he navigated across the Zuider Zee by means of two nails stuck in the deck; and the day he ran into the Isle of Wight while trying to hit France. But it is the Broads which are the true home of Coarse Sailors, he claims, for here one can experience every known marine disaster without actually going to sea. The little group of would-be seadogs whose adventures he describes meet with such unusual occurrences as Insanity of Ship’s Master, Explosion of Vessel and Restraint by Forces of Law, besides the more normal hazards of grounding and collision.”
 
Book Type: Hard back with Dust Jacket  
Genre:   Sport, Lifestyle, 
Illustrations by John Jensen 
Edition: 1st Edition 9th impression July 1968
Published:  Hutchinson,  178-202 Great Portland Street, London W1.
ISBN: 09 065311 4 
Printed by offset litho at Taylor Garnett Evans and Co Ltd, Watford, Hertfordshire. 
Size: 22x 14cm
Pages: 119
A very good copy with a good clean dust jacket.
 
6 books to collect in the series.
The Art of Coarse Sailing by Michael Green
The Art of Coarse Rugby by Michael Green; 
Even Coarser Rugby by Michael Green; 
The Art of Coarse Acting by Michael Green; 
The Art of Coarse Cricket by Spike Hughes; 
The Art of Coarse Travel by Spike Hughes. 
 
CONDITION:
Dust Jacket: Good Clean with minor creasing to edges. 
Covers: Blue Boards are very good. Clean.
Binding: Tight 
Spine: Bright clean title on spine. Some light scuffing to edges. 
Pages.  All pages complete. In good condition bright and clean.  
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Back Story and Biography 
Michael Green (born 2 January 1927 in Leicester, England, died 25 February 2018[1]) was a British journalist and author of humorous books. He is best known for The Art of Coarse Rugby, The Art of Coarse Acting and other books with similar titles.
Career
Green began his career as a junior journalist on the Leicester Mercury. He later joined the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, where he worked on both the sporting and theatrical fronts, then the Birmingham Gazette as a sub-editor. Later he was a sports writer on The Observer and a contributor to the Sunday Times, among others.
The Art of Coarse Rugby, which became a best-seller in 1960, and The Art of Coarse Acting were both products of his Midlands days, when he was involved with amateur rugby and dramatics. Green was commissioned to write The Art of Coarse Rugby by Hutchinson, to go with a republication of The Art of Coarse Cricket by Spike Hughes, who had intended the title as a play on Coarse Fishing. Green describes a coarse actor as "one who can remember his lines, but not the order in which they come. One who performs ... amid lethal props..." and goes on: "The Coarse Actor's aim is to upstage the rest of the cast. His hope is to be dead by Act Two so that he can spend the rest of his time in the bar. His problems? Everyone else connected with the production." In similar vein, the coarse rugby player is described as differentiated from the rugger player in that he does not enjoy playing, but instead plays for any one of a number of other reasons, such as to get away from his wife, or because he dare not admit he is too old. Other books in the series followed, and The Art of Coarse Moving subsequently became the 1977 BBC TV series A Roof over My Head with Brian Rix.
His book about journalism, Don't Print My Name Upside Down, was based largely on his Northampton days. Stanley Worker, the paper's long-serving chief sub-editor, was so proud of references to him in the book that he kept a copy in his desk drawer to peruse with quiet satisfaction during rare lulls in his working day. Green also published two autobiographical books: The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship, which includes reminiscences about his National Service experiences, and Nobody Hurt in Small Earthquake, about his postwar journalist and sub-editor experiences in Northampton, Birmingham and London.
Green was famous for his zany and slightly eccentric behaviour. 
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