Description
Author: Falkus, Hugh
Publisher: Gollancz
Place: London
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: Nice Copy
Category: Shipping
Year: 1982
Edition: 1st edition
Size: lge. octavo
Description: 160pp., col. frontis., col. & b/w pls., maps, The remarkable story of one of the last and most successful of the great windjammer captains, William Nelson (1839-1929) who died at the age of 90 having never lost a ship and surviving through the rise and fall of the fast sailing ship when few masters died in their beds. His last voyage took him around Cape Horn at the age of 70