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The Last of the Windjammers: v. 2
£29.70
The second volume embraces the period 1888-1928, forty hard years for the Windjammer. Mr. Lubbock’s virile pen draws wonderful word-pictures of the Last Boom in Sail · The Limejuicers of 1888-89 · The Carriers of the Nineties · The Square Riggers of the Twent eth Century, and so on. He has something to say on the Art of Handling Sail, the unique City of Hankow, Monster Sailing Ships, the capsizing of the Lodore and Blairmore, the naming of Masts, Law’s “Shires”, queer rigs, the wonderful Lancing, the Ports of the World, Weir’s “Banks”, Lost Arts of the Seaman, Clink’s Slowcoaches Shire Line, Captains, the “Glens”, German, Argentine, Norwegian, French, Belgian, Finnish and Danish Training Ships, The Reef Topsail Voice, and so on.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd, Reprint edition (1 Jan. 1927) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| ISBN-10 | 0851741142 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0851741147 |
by John Goggins
As with vol.1, I love it.
by CAPT B I Evans
As a retired seafarer whose grandfather was a master in the days of sail I enjoy picking this book at odd moments in admiration of true seamen