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Down to the Sea in Ships (Classic Reprint)

Author : Sydney Glanville Fielding
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266564034
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Down to the Sea in Ships (Classic Reprint) written by Sydney Glanville Fielding and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Down to the Sea in Ships Do you know what time it is? I'll never come out with you again. You know how scotty she'll be if we're not back before one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

World Premiere

Author : Elmer Clifton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656088386
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book World Premiere written by Elmer Clifton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from World Premiere: Elmer Clifton's "Down to the Sea in Ships" Down to the sea in ships is the tangible result of the pride of a city in the glory of its traditions. It was personally directed by Elmer Clifton in Massachusetts and on the high seas and was made with the co-operation of the Old Dart mouth Historical Society, where a print may be found among its permanent records of the Whaling industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Sea and Its Wonders (Classic Reprint)

Author : Cyril Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332193905
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book The Sea and Its Wonders (Classic Reprint) written by Cyril Hall and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sea and Its Wonders The Sea and Its Wonders was written by Cyril Hall. This is a 316 page book, containing 80555 words and 69 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Down to the Sea (Classic Reprint)

Author : Morgan Robertson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331494546
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Down to the Sea (Classic Reprint) written by Morgan Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Down to the Sea The father took refuge in direct deceit, ascribing some of the phenomena which troubled the boy to the great unknown, others to the wisdom and experience of other men, which would come to him in time. He thus temporarily eliminated all factors but one that of the locked front door; and could only meet the boy's demand to be allowed passage through by a downright refusal. The result was a stormy scene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Down to the Sea in Ships

Author : Horatio Clare
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0701183101
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Down to the Sea in Ships written by Horatio Clare and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For millennia, the seaways have carried our goods, cultures and ideas, the terrors of war and the bounties of peace and they have never been busier than they are today. But though our normality depends on shipping, it is a world which passes largely unconsidered, unseen and unrecorded. Out of sight, in every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men (and they are mostly men) live extraordinary lives, subject to pressures we know families, relationships, dreams and fears and to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships, travelling in the company of their crews and captains. Together they experience unforgettable journeys: the first, from East to West (Felixstowe to Los Angeles, via Suez) is rich with Mediterranean history, torn with typhoon nights and gilded with an unearthly Pacific peace; the second northerly passage, from Antwerp to Montreal, reeks of diesel, wuthers with gales and goes to froz

Twenty Years Under the Sea (Classic Reprint)

Author : J. E. Williamson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331558371
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years Under the Sea (Classic Reprint) written by J. E. Williamson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Years Under the Sea MY father's people came from Scotland and it was here that he was born. John Williamson, his father, was the youngest Of nine brothers, all six-footers and shipbuilders. John married Agnes Bell at Annan, Scotland, and later they moved down to the sea and ships at Liverpool, the saltiest of seaports, bringing with them Charles, their tiniest infant, who was to become my seafaring father. On the day I was born my father was navigating his ship under double reef topsails around the tip Of Cape Horn. Here near the bottom of the world and sur rounded by mountainous seas, he was thousands of miles away from home, yet only on the first leg of a voyage. In those days months, even years, might pass before a sailor could make his home port again. In fact I was nearly three years Old before my father cast his seafaring eye on the trim of my rigging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Wonders of Salvage (Classic Reprint)

Author : David Masters
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390766448
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Wonders of Salvage (Classic Reprint) written by David Masters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wonders of Salvage That point of light which meant SO much to him was the beam of a lighthouse, one of the many en circling our coast. All round our Shores they keep sentinel night after night, through summer calm and winter blizzard, waking to life as daylight fades and dying as dawn steals over the seas. These lights, which the city dweller on a brief visit to the sea watches with such interest, are the friends of all who go down to the sea in ships. Our coasts are profoundly treacherous. Rocks, shoals and quicksands abound everywhere, and are mostly marked with lighthouses, lightships and buoys which in the aggregate have cost millions of pounds. No expense has been spared to indicate these hidden dangers and make our seas safe for Shipping. Yet, in spite of all that human foresight can suggest, wrecks still occur. Gales spring up and take their toll fogs steal on and drive Ships blindly to their doom machinery breaks down and allows the seas to hurl the helpless craft upon the cruel rocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Pirate's Progress

Author : William Archer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266215882
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Pirate's Progress written by William Archer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pirate's Progress: A Short History of the U-Boat But until the present war broke out it had occurred to no one to imagine that disasters due to the act of God would ever be redupli cated with cold deliberation by the act of man. Who could have conceived, at midsummer, 1914, that more destruction to the world's merchant shipping, and suffering to harmless seamen and passengers, would be caused within the next three years by the calculated policy of a so-called civilised power, than had been attributable in a century to perils naturally incident to the lives of those who go down to the sea in ships? This is the phenomenon with which we are face to face to-day - the callousness of man far out stripping in its ravages the heedless destructive ness of natural forces. It is an appalling pic ture, and one well calculated to give the final touch of bitterness to that loathing of the German idol - War with which Germany has made it her business to inspire all reason able men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ships Ways of Other Days (Classic Reprint)

Author : E. Keble Chatterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332348411
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Ships Ways of Other Days (Classic Reprint) written by E. Keble Chatterton and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ships Ways of Other Days Ships & Ways of Other Days was written by E. Keble Chatterton in 1913. This is a 434 page book, containing 94968 words and 141 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days

Author : John D. Whidden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332337019
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days written by John D. Whidden and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days: From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck; With 29 Illustrations From Photographs "Captain, why don't you write a book?" This question has been often asked me when relating some tale of adventure or humorous anecdote of my sea life. "For the reason that I know nothing of book writing," I have replied. "A school experience of seventy years ago, cut short at the age of twelve years, was not likely to leave a boy, however bright, with a high order of literary attainment." But, as years rolled on, after giving up the sea as a profession, I concluded to jot down from memory my quarter-century's sea experience. The characters are from life, the scenes and incidents as they appeared to me at the time, in a story of a New England boy's career from the age of twelve to thirty-seven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Building of the Ship (Classic Reprint)

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483672123
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Building of the Ship (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Building of the Ship To these memories of old, salt, sea-faring Portland of a century ago we owe one of the most characteristic and perfect of his shorter poems, The Building of the Ship. It was written in I 849. Longfellow, then about forty-three, was pro fessor of modern languages at Harvard. He hadpreviously held a similar position at Bowdoin and had made two extensive European journeys, which inspired his prose works, Outre Mer and Hyperion. While abroad he had lost his young wife, and after a season of chastening had again married and settled down into the quiet life of Craigie house, which was to be his home for almost a half-century. Several volumes of his poems, including Evangeline, had appeared; the public were already talking about him; and fame was assured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Flying Cloud

Author : Morley Roberts
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666985286
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Flying Cloud written by Morley Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Flying Cloud: A Story of the Sea It was magical, wonderful, past all whooping, to be young and to be alive, and to be on the deck of a great ship in a gale. Consider, you who have been to sea, and have indeed seen things, and known, maybe, many Hurricanes and Cyclones and Typhoons, and the Roaring Forties, and running down the Easting, and all the seven and seventeen seas of this strange round world of sea (wherein there is a little inconsiderable land); consider, I say, what it was to face your first big gale, if in your boy's heart there were but half the natural courage of a boy who loved the sea ignorantly and all its mighty works! Magic is no word for it; there are no words. To paint it one asks those who know to come and bring their hearts' knew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ships Across the Sea

Author : Ralph D. Paine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333748227
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Ships Across the Sea written by Ralph D. Paine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ships Across the Sea: Stories of the American Navy in the Great War Among the twelve hundred men aboard the ag ship you could have found no more ardent champion of the holiday spirit than Henry Turnbull, boat swain's mate, who was commonly called Bugs. This surging enthusiasm was illogical and unexpected. It perplexed all hands. He was a slow, stubborn per son of few words and fewer friends, mild-mannered enough unless goaded too far, when the raw-boned frame and hairy fists were a persuasive argument. When off duty he was usually reading some book from the ship's library or picked up in a second-hand shop, scowling at the pages with earnest interest and muttering the words aloud. His faithful chum, his right bower, was unlike him, of course. The peppery, quick-witted Jim Cooney was all that a petty officer ought to be a brisk little man with a blue eye that bored like a gimlet. When he rasped out a command there was no dilly dallying. He bullied Bugs Turnbull outrageously, and their quarrels diverted the gun deck, but they had been inseparable through two enlistments. These two were standing together in the lee of a turret while the liberty parties swarmed down into the string of sailing cutters, and the launches towed them toward the landing pier at Rosyth. The hun dreds of bluejackets were in high spirits at this re lease from long confinement within steel walls and Henry Turnbull, boatswain's mate, gazed after them, so much melancholy written upon his homely linea ments that Jim Cooney exclaimed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

By the Cornish Sea, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : John Isabell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331582458
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book By the Cornish Sea, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Isabell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from By the Cornish Sea, Vol. 1 of 2 It has, perhaps, never been sung with more heartiness, for most of those present have some relative on the great deep, or themselves go down to the sea In ships, either as seamen or fishermen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days (Classic Reprint)

Author : Mary Matthews Bray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332194025
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book A Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days (Classic Reprint) written by Mary Matthews Bray and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days On a chill gray afternoon in December, the good Ship, National Eagle, left the wharf in East Boston, bound for New Orleans. A group of relatives and friends, a few minutes before had filed down the gangway, and were still standing on the wharf, waving hats and handkerchiefs, as the ship, her moorings loosened and cast off, began to move slowly and majestically away from the pier. On board of her, as she glided away, in the waning light of the short winter afternoon, were the Captain; three officers or mates, designated as first, second and third; a carpenter; a steward; a cook; a crew of twenty or more men, known as "sailors before the mast"; and four younger men, called boys to distinguish them from the men of the crew. There were also two passengers, my sister and myself - daughters of the Captain. The Era of the Clipper Ship was the most picturesque, and perhaps the most profitable period, in the maritime life of the United States. It began about 1843 because of the growing demand for a quicker delivery of tea from China. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Saved at Sea

Author : O. F. Walton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330938997
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Saved at Sea written by O. F. Walton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Saved at Sea: An Lighthouse Story It was a terrible storm. My grandfather said he had never known such a storm since he came to live on the island, more than forty years before. Many ships went down in the storm that day, and many lives were lost. But in the very midst of it, when the wind was highest, and the waves were strongest, and when the foam and the Spray had completely covered the lighthouse windows, I, Alick Fergusson, was born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The China Clippers (Classic Reprint)

Author : Basil Lubbock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333738310
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book The China Clippers (Classic Reprint) written by Basil Lubbock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The China Clippers This book is an effort to preserve the records of the most perfect type of sailing ship at the very height of its development, and it has been written entirely for sailors and those who are interested in shipping. In it I have put down as simply as possible the personal history of certain ships and that in the plain language of the sea without any attempt to explain technical or seafaring terms for the benefit of the landsman. At the same time the reader must not expect to find highly-coloured descriptions of great sea adventures - the adventures are there right enough, but he who wishes to find them must search deep into the cold print of bald statements and read between the lines by the light of his own experience. The material gathered together in this book has been culled from countless abstract log books, as well as from information supplied to me, not only by the men who sailed the ships but also by their owners, designers and builders. Indeed I have to thank so many people for their help that a page of print would not contain their names, and I can only hope that this book may, perhaps, recall some pleasant sea memories and thus in some slight way recompense them for their kindness and trouble. Note - Where the word mile is used in this book, the sea-mile or 6080 feet is always meant, not the statute or land mile which is only 5280 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.