Beautifully Illustrated Book On Old Sailing Ships: Windjammers; Cape Horn

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Beautifully Illustrated Book On Old Sailing Ships: Windjammers; Cape Horn :
$9.98

Title; The Windjammers, by Oliver Allen

Nice high-quality edition with deep blue faux-leather covers, well illust. with many color paintings, drawings, and photographs.

Contents include:

Gigantic descendants of the lovely clippers
Lordly masters of all they surveyed
A heyday of proud ships and hellships
Cape Horn: where the wild gales raged
Captain Sea Devil of the \"Seeadler\"
Trustee of a vanishing way of life
Girding for the fight for survival
Masterpiece of disguise for a weapon of war
Of rocks & wrecks
Etc.

Part of the Time-Life; The Seafarers series.

(no highlighting, notes, marks, other than name neatly written inside front.)

12x10 Hardcover, in excellent condition, 200 pgs, 1980.

HC399