Nazibor Rahman is President of Rural Development Movement (RDM), a Non-Government Organization based in Pabna, Bangladesh. RDM experiments with new design and new materials for construction of country boats. He has attended a Diploma Course at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway, 1984-85. He was the Principle Field Researcher of the Country Boat Study, collection much of the information on which this book is based.