The windjammers /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Oliver E.
Corporate Author: Time-Life Books
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, [1978]
Series:Seafarers.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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."