The last of the windjammers

By Basil Lubbock

Subjects: Sailing ships, History

Description: The second volume embraces the period 1888-1928, forty hard years for the Windjammer. Mr Lubbock's virile pen draws wonderful word-pictures of the Last Boom in Sail - the Lime-juicers of 1888-9 - The Carriers of the Nineties - The Square Riggers of the Twentieth Century, and so on.