First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 447 pp. Author Derek Lundy takes the reader on an extraordinary journey; his ancestor Benjamin Lundy crossed ocrans under sail in the late 19th century. Here he places Benjamin on board teh Beara Head with a community of fellow seamen as they perform the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and around Cape Horn.

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Title: The Way of A Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Lo
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0224061399
ISBN 13: 9780224061391
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine

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Physical description: 448 p. : ill.,map ; 25 cm. Subjects: Lundy, Benjamin - Journeys. Sailing - History. Seafaring life.

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Derek Lundy is the author of Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters. He lives in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with his wife and daughter.

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