The Last of the windjammers
Reprint of the 1929 Edition
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Word Count
112,000 words, Guess
Page Count
448 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100851741142
- ISBN-139780851741147
- LibraryThing2871557
- Open LibraryOL23565062M
Classifications
- DDC387.22
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.
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.
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