The Challenge

by Whipple, A. B. C

1st Paperback Printing

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Bookseller: The Book & Gift Quest Online Bookstore & Library Supply (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 906539
Format/binding: Paperback
Book condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Paperback Printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0688089089
ISBN 13: 9780688089085
Publisher: Quill / William Morrow
Place: NY
Date published: 1987
Keywords: History, Maritime, Clipper Ships, Shipbuilding, Sailing Vessels, Merchant Ships, Cargo Vessel, Voyage, Ship's Log, the Challenge, Robert Waterman, Flying Cloud, Nautical, Cape Horn, Sailing, Mutiny,
Subjects: REFERENCE / Genealogy; TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / General;

Book Description

NY: Quill / William Morrow, 1987. Tight/Bright Copy, light edgewear, professionally clear archive tape reinforced cover cornertips, no names or labels, unmarked text.. An Authoritative Account of the Mid-Nineteenth Clipper Ship Century Era when Robert Waterman, a preeminent Clipper Ship Captain on the eve of his retirement, took up one final voyage to race and beat the new Clipper Ship Flying Cloud's cruising time from New York, around Cape Horn onward to San Francisco in a fast American Clipper Ship named "Challenge" . A trek cloaked in mystery, mutiny and death. With Era Clipper Ship design and improvements, vessels, voyage logs and event narratives, owners, crews, conditions, ports and press gangs, seaman duties, accidents, dangers, cargo's, and more.. 320 pages.. . 1st Paperback Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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