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The Book of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys to Clipper Ships

The Book of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys to Clipper Ships

Paperback

Series: Dover Maritime

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ISBN10: 0486273326
ISBN13: 9780486273327
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Nov 17 1992
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

Of all the ships human beings have constructed to navigate the waters of the world -- from a hollowed-out log sharpened at both ends to modern ocean liners weighing thousands of tons -- those powered by the wind are among the most interesting and beautiful.
In this classic review, noted maritime artist Gordon Grant has created 80 magnificent line illustrations of some of history's most important sailing ships, beginning with a graceful Egyptian galley (c. 1600 B.C.) and ending with a splendid five-masted clipper ship of 1921. Also depicted are a Roman trireme, a Viking longship, a sixteenth-century caravel, an East Indiaman of 1750, an early nineteenth-century brigantine, a New Bedford whaling bark, and dozens of lesser-known vessels, among them the galleass, carrack, buss, and flute.

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