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The windjammers / by Oliver E. Allen and the editors of Time-Life Books.

Allen, Oliver E. (Author). Time-Life Books. (Added Author).

Summary:

Profusely illustrated text discusses the windjammer sailing ships and the lives of the men who sailed them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0809427044
  • ISBN: 9780809427048
  • ISBN: 0809427052
  • ISBN: 9780809427055
  • Physical Description: 176 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
  • Publisher: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, [1978]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: page 170.
Formatted Contents Note:
The glorious age of tall ships -- Gigantic descendants of the lovely clippers -- Lordly masters of all they surveyed -- Recollections of youthful fo'c's'le adventure -- A heyday of proud ships and hellships -- Girding fro the fight for survival -- Cape Horn : where the wild gales raged -- Captain Sea Devil of the "Seeadler" -- A masterpiece of disguise for a weapon of war -- Trustee of a vanishing way of life -- Of rocks and wrecks and "a gathering of murderers."
Subject:
Windjammers (Sailing ships) > History.

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520 . ‡aProfusely illustrated text discusses the windjammer sailing ships and the lives of the men who sailed them.
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