Book Of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys To Clipper Ships; Author: Culver, Henry B.; Illustrator Grant, Gordon; Paperback; Large size

Author: Culver, Henry B.; Illustrator Grant, Gordon
Dover Pictorial Archives; Paperback; Large size
236 pages
Published: March 1993
Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486273326
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Noted maritime artist Gordon Grant has created 80 magnificent line illustrations of some of history's most important sailing ships, beginning with a graceful Egyptian galley (c. 1600 B.C.) and ending with a splendid five-masted clipper ship of 1921. In between the reader will find a Roman trireme, a Viking longship, a 16th-century caravel, an East Indiaman of 1750, a New Bedford whalingbark, and dozens of lesser-known vessels.Reprint of The Book of Old Ships: and Something of Their Evolution and Romance , published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York, 1924. Presents 80 line illustrations of important sailing ships, accompanied by meticulously researched text for each vessel. Annotation copyright Book Ne