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Derek Lundy is a magnificent storyteller and in this book he takes us on an extraordinary journey. His ancestor Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late nineteenth century and over one hundred years later his great-great nephew has re-created that journey. In The Way of a Ship he places Benjamin on board the Beara Head with a community of fellow seamen as they perform the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn. These "beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea" ships represented near technological perfection. They could move fast in almost all weather and carry huge cargos. But they demanded much of the men who sailed in them. Life at sea, was a brutal and unforgiving business. Fed on a diet of pea soup, gristly salt horse, rock hard weevil-invested biscuits and just enough lemon to keep scurvy at bay, the seamen were dangerously malnourished and sleep-deprived. But their instinct was to give their all through the battering, screaming winds. The equation was simple: they would survive if the ship survived and so they fought to save the ship. As Benjamin Lundy nears the Horn and its attendant terrors, the traditional qualities of the sailor - fatalism, stoicism, courage and unquestioning obedience to a strict authority - are revealed with all their necessary and unrelenting force. This is a powerful and enlightening tale and like Melville and Conrad before him Derek Lundy adorns his story with a profound knowledge of the sea and sailing and reminds us that the ocean voyage under sail is an overarching metaphor for life itself.
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Physical description: 448 p. : ill.,map ; 25 cm. Subjects: Lundy, Benjamin - Journeys. Sailing - History. Seafaring life.
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"A tribute to the seamen of the Age of Sail." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"A tribute to the seamen of the Age of Sail."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"The wealth and authority of this book make it a worthy companion to the very best histories on seafaring."--Sunday Times (London)
A tribute to the seamen of the Age of Sail. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"
The wealth and authority of this book make it a worthy companion to the very best histories on seafaring. --Sunday Times (London)"
"A tribute to the seamen of the Age of Sail."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"The wealth and authority of this book make it a worthy companion to the very best histories on seafaring."--Sunday Times (London)
A tribute to the seamen of the Age of Sail. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"
The wealth and authority of this book make it a worthy companion to the very best histories on seafaring. --Sunday Times (London)"
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2002
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- ISBN 13 9780224061391
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