Author: LUNDY, DEREK
Title: The Way of a Ship a Square
Description: Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 067697371x. Signed by Author; Light edge wear top edge ; Signed by author on title page. A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.46 x 9.25 x 6.3 Inches; 449 pages; Derek Lundy's follow-up to his bestseller Godforsaken Sea is yet another well-told, tension-filled sailing adventure. Based on scraps of information the author has pieced together about his seafaring great-great uncle, The Way of a Ship imagines a trip aboard a massive square-rigger, the Beara Head, hauling coal from Liverpool, England, to Valparaíso, Chile, in 1885. While Lundy knows that his uncle was indeed a seaman on such a trip, the details are provided solely from the author's imagination, based on his obviously vast knowledge of the subject matter.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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