Voyaging, Fifty years on the seven seas in sail

Holmes, J.W.: 1965 UK, hardcover, 207 pages, illustrated. A firsthand memoir by Captain James William Holmes recounting a half-century under sail from 1869 to 1921, charting voyages across the world’s major trade routes and the harsh, often perilous work aboard windjammers in the twilight of commercial sail. It blends concise “pen pictures” with paintings and vignettes of ships, ports, crews, and passages, preserving the craft, risks, and culture of deep‑sea sailing just before steam power displaced it. In good condition