Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship - Hardcover

Dean, Nicholas; Switzer, David C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884482316 ISBN 13: 9780884482314

Verlag: Tilbury House Pub, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Nicholas Dean David C Switzer

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Críticas:

..".this book is a far cry from the usual litany of record clipper ship passages and the deification of their captains. This is a human story told on human terms."

Reseña del editor:

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 yard 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.

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• Verlag: Tilbury House Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0884482316
• ISBN 13: 9780884482314
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320