Clifford Warren Ashley

Clifford Warren Ashley ( born December 18, 1881 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, † September 18, 1947 in Westport, Massachusetts) was an American sailor, painter and author of non-fiction books.

Life

After training as a visual artist Clifford W. Ashley wrote a study The Yankee Whaler on whaling in New England at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The study resulted from an order of Harper's Monthly Magazine, published in 1906, went for Ashley herself on a whaler at sea. In 1932 he married Sarah Scudder Clarke. Clifford W. Ashley became famous through his paintings and drawings from the maritime life beyond but especially for his still today, designated as the standard work book, The Ashley Book of Knots (1944, dt The Ashley Book of knots), for which he while eleven collected over years 3800 node mainly from the maritime, outlined and commented on. Two years after a stroke died Ashley 1947.

Works

• The Yankee Whaler. Dover: Dover Publications Inc., 1991, ISBN 0-486-26854-3 ( out of print)
• The Ashley Book of knots. About 3800 nodes. How they look. What are they used. How are they made. Special edition. Hamburg: Edition Maritim, 2005, ISBN 3-89225-527- X
• The Ashley Book of Knots. Doubleday, New York 1944, ISBN 0-385-04025-3 ( original English edition).