Seafarers: The Windjammers
by Allen, Oliver E
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1844471292
- ISBN 13
- 9781844471294
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: The Caxton Publishing Group, 2004 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Hardcover Re-Issue. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 176 pp, The Glorious Age of Tall Ships (essay); 1. Gigantic Descendants of the Lovely Clippers; 2. Lordly Masters of All They Surveyed; Recollections of Youthful fo'cs'le adventure (essay) 3. A Heyday of Proud Ships and Hellships; Girding for the Fight for Survival (essay); 4. Cape Horn: Where the Wild Gales Raged; 5. Captain Sea Devil of the "Seeadler"; A Masterpiece of Disguise for a Weapon of War (essay); 6. Trustee of a Vanishing Way of Life; Of Rocks and Wrecks and "a Gathering of Murderers"; bibliography, picture credits, acknowledgments, index with color and b&w illustrations throughout. @2004 Re-Issue of the original @1978 edition. "Sail in the 1920s and 1930s. Windjammers were fast and daring sail ships that competed with steam passge and freight This book tells the tale of the men and great ships and their amazing passages." Not Priced Clipped. Pristine no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial laminated boards cloth with map on endpapers.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004949
- Title
- Seafarers: The Windjammers
- Author
- Allen, Oliver E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Hardcover Re-Issue
- ISBN 10
- 1844471292
- ISBN 13
- 9781844471294
- Publisher
- The Caxton Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- TRANSPORTATION SEAFARING VESSELS WINDJAMMERS HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRANSPORTATION;
- Size
- 4to
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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