The way of a ship : a square-rigger voyage in the last days of sail / Derek Lundy.

The way of a ship : a square-rigger voyage in the last days of sail / Derek Lundy.

By
: 
Lundy, Derek, 1946-

Publication Date
: 
2002

Publication Information
: 
Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, Canada,

Physical Description
: 
449 p. : ill.

Subject Term
: 
Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term
: 
Cape Horn (Chile).

Summary
: 
Derek Lundy places his seafaring great-great uncle, Benjamin Lundy, on board the Beara Head and brings to life the ship's community as it performs the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the sea.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780676973716


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