Ebook: The way of a ship: a square-rigger voyage in the last days of sail
Author: Lundy Benjamin, Lundy Derek
- Tags: Sailing--History, Seafaring life--History--19th century, Sailing, Seafaring life, Square-riggers, Travel, Voyages and travels, History, Biography, Lundy Benjamin -- Journeys, Lundy Benjamin -- Travel, Beara Head (Ship), Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century, Sailing -- History, Horn Cape (Chile), Lundy Benjamin, Chile -- Cape Horn
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: New York;Horn;Cape (Chile);Chile;Cape Horn
- Edition: 1st Ecco pbk. ed
- Language: English
- epub
Derek Lundy recreates a sailing trip undertaken by his great-great grandfather, Benjamin Lundy, in the late 19th century. He shows Benjamin and fellow seamen on board "The Beara Head" as they perform the exhausting, dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn.;Down to the sea -- Un-homing, up-anchoring -- In narrow waters -- The stateliest, stiffest frigate -- That unsounded ocean -- The ocean paths my home -- The circle of her traverse of the sea -- The uttermost cape -- The bloody horn -- Not a voyage complete.
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