The Last of the Windjammers
Title | The Last of the Windjammers PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Lubbock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Merchant marine |
ISBN |
The Last of the Windjammers
Title | The Last of the Windjammers PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Basil Lubbock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Clipper ships |
ISBN |
The Last of the Windjammers
Title | The Last of the Windjammers PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Lubbock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Merchant marine |
ISBN |
The Last of the Wind Ships
Title | The Last of the Wind Ships PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Sailing ships |
ISBN | 0393050335 |
A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
The Last of the Windjammers
Title | The Last of the Windjammers PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Lubbock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Merchant marine |
ISBN |
Learning the Ropes
Title | Learning the Ropes PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Newby |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
With wit and nostalgia--and through radiant photographs that evoke a vanished maritime world--a master storyteller looks back on a youthful adventure that taught him the ways of the sea and ships. 160 photos.
Windjammers
Title | Windjammers PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Walton |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814329962 |
White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of life and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Recognizing in the late 1930s, almost too late, that this rich oral tradition was going to the grave along with the last generation of schoonermen, Ivan H. Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes sailors. Racing time and its ravages, he searched out ancient mariners in lakefront hospitals, hangouts, and watering holes. Walton reconstructed songs from one of the most colorful periods in American history, discovering melodies and lyrics to more than a hundred songs. With its stories, lyrics, musical scores by folksinger/historian Lee Murdock, and accompanying CD, Windjammers ensures that sailing chanteys that have not been heard for over one hundred years can be heard again and again far into the future.