Viewpoint: Learning from the past
Hard Down! Hard Down! is a wonderful book illuminating the final years of sail
What shines out of this account of the last chapter of deepwater sailing ships is the fortitude of that generation of seafarers, the insecurity of the life they lived when casual labour was king, and the utter isolation for months on end
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