Along the clipper way
Francis Chichester (Editor)
"Francis Chichester's object in this book is to take the reader stage by stage along the great clipper way followed by the gold, wool and grain clippers from Britain round the Cape (of Good Hope) to Australia and then on round back to Britain. Every mile of this 28,500 mile long route round the world has given pleasure, pain or drama to thousands of sailors. Francis Chichester has collected what he things are the best accounts by seamen and the most artistic descriptive passages of famous authors who have written about one section or another of this great route. This is the most romantic sea route of the world and the stories chosen cover many different aspects of it. --There are pieces of narrative from the three solo yachtsmen who have so far survived doubling the Horn; and from the men who twice tried to round the Horn but was capsized and dismasted each time."--Page 2 of cover
Print Book, English, [1966]
Hodder & Stoughton, London, [1966]