Windjammers: The Final Story
- ISBN-10
- 1877058041
- ISBN-13
- 9781877058042
- Category
- Sailing ships
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Author
- Robert Carter
Description
A blend of interviews, diary extracts and stories. All illustrated with 42 of Robert Carter's beautiful and detailed paintings. They are not just illustrations of ships. Each comes with its own description, revealing more about the days of sail. 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.
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