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Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship

Door Nicholas Dean

Categorie
Schepen & Scheepvaart
Boeknummer
#346759-XJ10
Titel
Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship
Auteur
Dean, Nicholas
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Gardiner, MN : Tilbury House
Jaar van uitgave
Gar
ISBN10
0884482316
ISBN13
9780884482314
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, silver lettered spine, numerous (full page) b/w illustrations (including photographs), 8vo.
Samenvatting

In the middle of the nineteenth century American clipper ships astounded the maritime world with their amazingly swift passages to and from faraway seaports, bringing back exotic and valuable cargoes of tea, spices, and silk. Of all those clippers, only one remains: the Maine-built snow squall, whose bow section was rescued from the remote Falkland Islands by the Snow Squall Project in the 1980s. This book begins (and ends) with an unusual volunteer archaeological expedition in the aftermath of the Falkland War but quickly becomes a maritime detective story, as snow squall's story is pieced together further with information gleaned from shipping lists, newspaper accounts, disaster books, and diaries. Her world turns out to be a fascinating one, from the laying of her keel at the Butler y... (Lees verder)ard in South Portland in 1851; to her captain's problems with storms, unruly crews, and attempted piracy; her owner's attempts to keep her profitable when news of her markets thousands of miles away was months old, and her cargo wouldn't be delivered until months later; and her last captain's heroic efforts to repair his badly damaged ship after going aground near Cape Horn in 1864.
Pagina's
301
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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