![]() As Benjamin Lundy nears the Horn and its attendant terrors, the traditional qualities of the sailor - fatalism, stoicism, courage, obedience to a strict hierarchy, even sentimentality - are revealed in their dying days, as sail gave way to steam. Derek Lundy reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself. Seamen were sleep deprived and malnourished, at times half-starved, and scurvy was still a possibility. Handling square-riggers demanded detailed and specialized skills, and life at sea, although romanticized by sea-voyage chroniclers, was often brutal. The “beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea” sailing ships could sail fast in almost all weather and carry substantial cargo. In The Way of a Ship, Derek Lundy places his seafaring great-great uncle, Benjamin Lundy, on board the Beara Head and brings to life the ship’s community as it performs the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the sea. Download The Way of a Ship Book in PDF, Epub and Kindleįrom the author of Godforsaken Sea - a #1 bestseller in Canada and “one of the best books ever written about sailing” (Time magazine) - comes a magnificent re-creation of a square-rigger voyage round Cape Horn at the end of the 19th century.
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