The Way of a Ship CD: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail

• Author: Derek Lundy
• ISBN 10: 0060535512
• ISBN 13: 9780060535513
• Edition: Abridged
• Release: April 1, 2003
• Format: Audio CD
• List Price: $29.95
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  List Price: $29.95

  Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups, Adventurers & Explorers,

  Book Description:
  When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for unimaginably hard duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel -- one destined for a treacherous, white-knuckle passage round that notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn -- he had no idea that his experience would also provide a window into an epochal transition that would fundamentally change a man's relation to the sea.The Way of a Ship is a mesmerizing account of Benjamin's life on board the square-rigger Beara Head. It evokes both the romance and brutality of that bygone era and illuminates the history of square-rigger seamen and the last days of the "beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea" sailing ships. Derek Lundy's masterful account of his forebear's journey reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself.Read by Richard Easton.

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