Buy this book on-line McCUTCHAN**, PHILIP: : TALL SHIPS - The Golden Age of SailLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1976. ISBN 051752595X.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj, but with two small nicks (closed tears) top edges dw/dj,spine/backstrip of dw/dj slightly faded.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 160pp includes bibliography+index. Pictorial endpapers,b/w+colour illus and photographs.
The 19thC saw the great era of the tall ships,when sailing ship performance reached its peak and designers produced their finest work.The book traces the history of the 'golden age of sail' - from the fast Baltimore packets of the earlier part of the century through the years of the glorious clippers which became the undisputed masters of all passenger and cargo ships.
McCutchan explores the famous ships of this age,how the design of sailing ships evolved,as well as some of the personalities behind them - the naval architects,the discoverers,the seamen and masters of ship-handling,the passengers and the ship-owners who made their fortunes.Above all,he describes the remarkable passages these ships took - the Far East trading routes,the Australian passage,the transatlantic emigrant trade, the round-the-world voyages which meant weathering the Roaring Forties and the notoriously treacherous Cape Horn.By the time WW1 broke out, sail was dead.The steamships,which had threatened sail throughout its days of glory,finally forged ahead as the preferred commercial vessels,winning the best crews and the most profitable runs: and during the 1920's only a handful of windjammers sailed the seas,most of them under Scandanavian ownership.But,particularly after WW2,many countries - including England, USA, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Chile, Argentina, Poland, Germany and Rumania - began to maintain sail-training ships.This revival of interest springs from the knowledge that training under sail instils qualities of confidence,self-reliance and leadership.
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