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Tea Clippers: Their History and Development, 1833-1875
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- GenresNautical
256 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1983
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June 19, 2015
This is a great book for anyone interested in the Cutty Sark or the great tea races of the mid to late 1800s.
So great, in fact, that I have a much longer review on my website if you'd like to check it out: http://joshuarigsby.com/2015/06/18/bo...
MacGregor is particularly interested in the dimensions, lines, and construction of the vessels, and as such this book is best treated as a chronological encyclopedia. The author divides the material into helpful sections depending on the economic forces at play in the period, begins each section with a narrative introduction, then treats each ship chronologically according to the date of her construction.
Full of illustrations, drawings, sail plans, paintings and photography, this text represents the best information available to scholarship at the time of writing. As all nautical historians have done since Lubbock's time, MacGregor is careful to separate fact from mythology and to generously back up his claims.
This text is thick with nautical terminology, and probably not best for the beginner. That said, if you are looking for a detailed ship by ship description of the great tea clippers, it would be difficult to findone more thorough or better illustrated.
http://joshuarigsby.com
So great, in fact, that I have a much longer review on my website if you'd like to check it out: http://joshuarigsby.com/2015/06/18/bo...
MacGregor is particularly interested in the dimensions, lines, and construction of the vessels, and as such this book is best treated as a chronological encyclopedia. The author divides the material into helpful sections depending on the economic forces at play in the period, begins each section with a narrative introduction, then treats each ship chronologically according to the date of her construction.
Full of illustrations, drawings, sail plans, paintings and photography, this text represents the best information available to scholarship at the time of writing. As all nautical historians have done since Lubbock's time, MacGregor is careful to separate fact from mythology and to generously back up his claims.
This text is thick with nautical terminology, and probably not best for the beginner. That said, if you are looking for a detailed ship by ship description of the great tea clippers, it would be difficult to findone more thorough or better illustrated.
http://joshuarigsby.com
November 11, 2018
More reference than readable, it's a long list of Ships (never knew there were so many clippers!), passage times, and a few chapters of narrative about the evolution of the Tea Clippers. But unless you want to really dig into it, it uses a ton of ship-specific lingo that I didn't know (and I've read a fair number of historical / Nautical books). I suppose I could have went to google and figured out the terminology, but I wasn't that dedicated.
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