All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
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All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud

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Title: All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud Author: Armstrong Sperry ISBN: 0879235233 Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher Published: 1995 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good C 1636043 Publisher Description: An exciting, fact-based, old-fashioned tale of adventure at sea, winner of a Newbery Honor for young readers in 1936. When his father loses his fortune at sea, a boy, Enoch Thacher, signs up with a famous shipbuilder and takes a record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the famous Flying Cloud. The Flying Cloud was a real ship and its maker was master shipbuilder, Donald McKay (1810-1880). The era depicted in this novel is a time when the windships were the queens of the ocean and sail was king. McKay's company, located in East Boston, launched many of the fastest clipper ships in history, with Flying Cloud being his most famous ship of all. In All

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