The Last of the windjammers
By: Basil Lubbock.
Edition: Reprint of the 1929 Edition
Series: Volume 2 of 2 volumes
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Sailing ships -- History.
First sentence: Those of us who have lived through the past half century have had the luck to take part in perhaps the most important epoch in the world's development.
Description: The second volume embraces the period 1888-1928, forty hard years for the Windjammer.   Mr Lubbock's virile pen draws wonderful word-pictures of the Last Boom in Sail - the Lime-juicers of 1888-9 - The Carriers of the Nineties - The Square Riggers of the Twentieth Century, and so on.
Notes: Frontispiece and numerous other illustrations, and 17 sail or hull plans.  11 Appendices and Index. World map on endpapers.