Falmouth for orders
Subtitle: The Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn
By: by A. J. Villiers. Profusely illustrated with photos. taken by the author.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Herzogin Cecilie (Ship); Beatrice (Clipper-ship); Clipper ships.
First sentence: If a passenger steamer had been in the vicinity of Cape Otway, off the southern coast of Australia, on the morning of Saturday, December 17th, 1927, her passengers would have seen the sight of their lives: two great four-masted barques, relics of an age that has passed forever, racing under all sail to a stiff southerly breeze.
Description: The story of the race between the Herzogin Cecilie and the Beatrice in 1927/28 both loaded with wheat, from Port Lincoln in South Australia to Falmouth, where they were to receive orders for their destination. The author sailed aboard Herzogin Cecilie.
Notes: Introduction to New Edition by the author.  Dust jacket from a painting by Mark Myers.

Map on front endpaper, drawings of Beatrice and Herzogin Cecilie on back endpapers.  Photo of Herzogin Cecilie at frontispiece and facing rear end paper, and 40 other photos, mostly taken by the author.

Dedication "To HARALD BRUCE and REUBEN DE CLOUX Good Masters of Good Ships".