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Irving Johnson Round Cape Horn "I had a hankering to make a long voyage in one of the old-time square riggers." And that is just what Irving Johnson did, in 1929-30, shipping out from Germany round Cape Horn to Chile in the big four-masted bark Peking. Seen though the eyes of an adventurous young sailor, this spirited account ranks as one of the classics of man against the sea and is a living testament to life aboard one of the world's most famous tall ships, now preserved at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City |
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Sea Shanties of The Seven Seas ".. This splendid tome, expertly illustrated by the author, is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative of the many collections of sailors' songs published over the past nine decades. In shear volume alone it is certainly the most monumental, providing a consistently fascinating text and a lifetime's worth of material for the amateur of professional folksinger, maritime historian, folklorist, or literary critic." -Stuart M. Frank in the Log of Mystic Seaport |
| This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties – chanteys to Americans –but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers. | |
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