succincte

Updated: June 4, 2025

This book, well called his Brief Recit et Succincte Narration, is quite as easy for an Englishman to read in French as Shakespeare is for a Frenchman to read in English. It abounds in acute observations of all kinds, but particularly so in its sailing directions.

William Charles Henry Wood - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways