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Offers a nostalgic and enlightening look at the last great sailing ships through essays, anecdotes, paintings, and contemporary photographs
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This is the story of the windjammer - the huge square-rigged sailing vessels that were valiantly challenging the coming of steam on world trade routes. They fought their way around Cape Horn and charged through the Southern Oceans, capturing the hearts of sailors and landsmen alike.
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Seafarers: The Windjammers
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ISBN 10: 1844471292
ISBN 13: 9781844471294
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover Re-Issue. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 176 pp, The Glorious Age of Tall Ships (essay); 1. Gigantic Descendants of the Lovely Clippers; 2. Lordly Masters of All They Surveyed; Recollections of Youthful fo'cs'le adventure (essay) 3. A Heyday of Proud Ships and Hellships; Girding for the Fight for Survival (essay); 4. Cape Horn: Where the Wild Gales Raged; 5. Captain Sea Devil of the "Seeadler"; A Masterpiece of Disguise for a Weapon of War (essay); 6. Trustee of a Vanishing Way of Life; Of Rocks and Wrecks and "a Gathering of Murderers"; bibliography, picture credits, acknowledgments, index with color and b&w illustrations throughout. @2004 Re-Issue of the original @1978 edition. "Sail in the 1920s and 1930s. Windjammers were fast and daring sail ships that competed with steam passge and freight This book tells the tale of the men and great ships and their amazing passages." Not Priced Clipped. Pristine no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial laminated boards cloth with map on endpapers Size: 4to. Book. Seller Inventory # 004949
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THE WINDJAMMERS
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1st reprint by Caxton Group of the 1978 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title page: Helm of the bark Kaiulani. Eps: Map of the world plied by the Windjammers. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28.2 x 23.7. Seller Inventory # 65992
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Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Seller Inventory # Q-1844471292