A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.
A history of the many-masted ships that were important to world trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
West Coast Windjammers in Story and Pictures
Includes photographs, line drawings and maps. The book reveals real life stories from the final 50 years in the life of the last commercial sailing ships which ended in 1959.
Working, studying, and teaching along these shores ever since, Frank has produced a body of work, represented in this book, that reflects his love, passion, and utmost respect for the land and the sea, its maritime traditions, and the ...
Windjammers and Sea Tramps
This is the story of those ships and of the intrepid pioneers who built them.
Windjammer - the word rang like an insult. And that was the intention of hooting steamship crews, who used it to describe the huge square-rigged sailing vessels that were valiantly...
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