Last of the Cape Horners : Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships

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Description

Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 296 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and map end-papers. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A collection of accounts of life aboard the last of the American, English, Scottish and Finnish “Cape Horners” that sailed around the fabled tip of South America up till the mid-1950’s. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near as new but for neatly price-clipped jacket. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.

Additional information

Weight 1.81 lbs
ISBN

9781574882834

Book Author

Spencer Apollonio [editor]

Publisher

Brassey's

Publish Year

Publish Place

Washington, DC

Size

8vo – over 7¾ – 9¾" tall

Book Condition

Jacket Condition

Binding Type

Hardcover

Language

Edition

Printing

1st Printing