The Down Easters: the Story of the Cape Horners: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929

by Basil Lubbock

$150 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

Hardcover, Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1963. Fourth Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. A history of the American sailing ships that made the New York to San Francisco run around Cape Horn off the tip of South America in the late 1800s. The ships also sailed the San Francisco to Liverpool route. Includes rare black and white photographs and detailed fold-out plans of the ships.

• Binding: Hardcover

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