Here's a
book I found at a bargain basement tent sale, best 5$ I ever spent...
Clipper Ships and Captains
by Jane D. Lyon
Punlished by Troll Associates, Mahwah, NJ
Library of Congress Card Number 62-21579
by the American Heritage Junior Library
Its a book written for kids, around middle school level, that covers the Clipper Era like no other. All the pictures are from the era, photos, paintings, lithos, etc. Many diagrams and sailor artwork as well. Some are heartbreaking, such as photos of the David Crockett and the Glory of the Seas as listing, decrepit holding barges in their last days afloat.
Chapter 4, "A Bully Ship and a Bully Crew", was particularly enthralling, as penned by a ficticious passenger aboard the N.B. Palmer as it raced Flying Cloud around the Horn to California.
If you happen upon this book, get it. You will most certainly enjoy it's fresh telling of the glory days of sail.
Dave J
