The twilight of sail
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"For the traveller at the beginning of the nineteenth century an ocean passage basically meant very much what it had meant to travellers 3,000 years before: weeks or months of deprivation and hardship with the likelihood of death from shipwreck, foundering or disease."
191 pages
~3h 11min to read
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The Twilight of Sail is a magnificent celebration in pictures of the full-rigged ocean flyers of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Over 120 black and white photographs are included, many of them never before published, to provide a vivid evocation of the atmosphere of life at sea; the splendour of the ocean clippers as they sliced their way through the waves, sales billowing; the hazards and spartan conditions of life on board; the bustling activity in the ports and docks; and the bleak fate of a grounded ship, floundering amidst the waves.
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