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Adventure of Sail, The by Donald Macintyre 1520-1914
Adventure of Sail, The by Donald Macintyre
The Adventure of Sail
Donald Macintyre
Hard cover with dust jacket
256 pages
Copyright 1970 Second Impression 1975
Contents
INTRODUCTION by Uffa FOX CBE 8 FROM THE CARAVEL TO THE CLIPPER.
by Captain Donald Macintyre RN I I
THE ADVENTURE OF SAIL
A beautiful strait 54
Sixteenth-century navigation 58
Plunder in the Pacific 61
Sir Richard versus Don Beltran 64
North to China 68
Barents' last voyage 72
A wonderful voyage 91
Surgery at sea 97
The Sovereign of the Seas 98
An ordinary voyage 103
Worms of several sorts I 15
Caress and humour them 117
A naval hero jig
Blackbeard the pirate 121
The scurvy 127
The loss of the Wager 133
Landing on Tahiti 143
Scenes from Cook's voyages 146
Naval tactics 153
Documents of Trafalgar 162
The Constitution versus the Guerriere 171
Before the mast 173
Homeward bound round the Horn 183
Whaling 197
China Clippers 204
Smashed wheels, shifting ballast, weed
and barnacles 209
Merchant schooners 217
Initiation 225
GLOSSARY
The spars and rigging of a ship 237
A ship's sails 238
The frame of a ship 238
Types of sailing ship 239
Dictionary of sea terms 239
The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail.
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