Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of Civilisation

by Tim Queeney

321 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 14, 2025

About the author

TIM QUEENEY is the former editor of Ocean Navigator magazine. Tim's work has appeared in Professional Mariner, American History, and Aviation History. He has had short stories published in the crime anthology Landfall, Best New England Crime Stories 2018 and in the speculative anthology A Land Without Mirrors. Tim has been interviewed on BBC Radio, Maine Public and Connecticut Public Radio, The World on NPR, Talk Radio Europe, Late Night Live on Australian ABC radio and on podcasts like Decoder Ring from Slate.com, History Unplugged, Something You Should Know and GarageLogic with Tommy Mischke. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and a rescue dog, Frankie. A life-long sailor, he has taught celestial navigation, radar navigation and coastal piloting ashore and at sea — where he tied plenty of knots and handled many a rope.

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