Vintage 1969 Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket

PACIFIC SQUARE-RIGGERS

By Jim Gibbs

Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear

Lovely sailing black and white photographs throughout this pictorial

Thrilling stories of the great windships that sailed the perilous seas. The story of the second Jonah, Jim Barclays, young sailor of the Star of the East, who in February 1891, was actually swallowed by a whale and lived to tell of it. The story of the crew of the Jenny, deep-freezes in the ice of the Antarctic for 37 years. The Barbary Coast, mutinies, shanghaiing excerpts from the Red Record of the American Hell Ships, great glory of the Seas which accomplished maritime supremacy for the United States

Slight fading to hard cover edge - see photos

Perfect for the vintage maritime collector and windship sailing enthusiast

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