Windjammers & Shellbacks

Keble Chatterton, E: 1926 London, hardcover 254 pages, with illustrations. A collection of vivid, true maritime tales in which E. Keble Chatterton captures the waning age of wooden sailing ships, hard-bitten seafarers, and the lore of the fo’c’sle. Blending first-hand accounts with nautical history, the book evokes the romance, peril, and discipline of life under sail as steam power began to eclipse the great windjammers. In good condition