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are usually
perceived as vessels of the nineteenth century or earlier. Yet these graceful, multi-masted beauties actually sailed on into the 1950s before
they disappeared from the seas forever.
The Last of the Cape
Horners
is an
exciting anthology of the best-written and most-representative accounts of
life aboard commercial square-rigged sailing ships in the final fifty years
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Veteran sailor Spencer Apollonio has drawn from many little-known sources for
these accounts of life aboard the last of the American, English, Scottish,
and Finnish “
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on the bridge, at the wheel, on the open poop,
on
the open deck,
everyman
fighting
Ray
Wilmore..
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Arranged in the
sequence of a voyage around the world, the accounts outline the general
nature of commercial activities, routes and ports of call, and the gradual
decline of commercial sailing ships. Apollonio includes a full range of exciting and
dangerous action, as well as everyday ship-board experiences. With clear explanations of the technical
aspects of sailing these tall ships and with lively accounts of life on
board,
The Last of the |
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Spence Apollonio is a marine biologist who has conducted
research in the Arctic seas and the Order by
Email:
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Write or call:
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Other writing by Spencer Apollonio
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Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine Complexities:
Searching for Systems in the Gulf of
Maine
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Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A story of · An Enormous, Immensely Complicated Intervention: Groundfish and The New England Fishery Management Council. F
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