Ocean Racers by C. Fox Smith (HQ309)

Circa 1940: Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 191 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age. (HQ309)

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Ocean Racers - a historical look at the merchant shipping clippers racing across the oceans to transport tea from China, wool from Australia and many more cargoes in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Stories of merchant square-rig sailing ships, including the Red Jacket, Cutty Sark, Glenalvon, Glenesslin, Cedric the Saxon, Bracadle, etc. History of the clipper ships and other fast merchantmen in the California gold rush, the China trade, and the Australian wool trades, in the late 1800s. [Google Books]