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Way Of A Ship: A Square Rigger Voyage In The Last Days Of Sail

Author: Lundy, Derek
(Abridged); 5 CDs; Audio Product ~ Compact Disc
HarperAudio
ISBN: 0060535512

Based partly on the experiences of his great great uncle, an Irish sailor, Derek Lundy recreates the voyage of a merchant sailing ship -- the Beara Head -- around Cape Horn in the 1880s. The Way of a Ship is at once a white-knuckle journey around the notorious graveyard of ships, and a gorgeous evocation of a bygone era, depicting not only the dangerous day-to-day life aboard a square rigger, but also how the ascendancy of steam ships ultimately rendered commercial sailing vessels obsolete, as The Age of Sail gave way to The Age of Steam.The beautiful, widow-making, deep-seasailing ships could sail fast and carry substantial cargo, but were vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the weather and the sea's many dangers. Life at sea was often brutal and relentless; seamen were s

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