When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn.
A century later, Derek Lundy, author of the bestselling Godforsaken Sea and an accomplished amateur seaman himself, set out to recount his forebear's journey. The Way of a Ship is a mesmerizing account of life on board a square-rigger, a remarkable reconstruction of a...
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exci...
Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late 19th century and over 100 years Derek Lundy, his great-great nephew, has re-created that journey. In this work, he palces Benjamin on board the Beara Head with a community of fellow seamen as they perform the dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn.
Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late 19th century and over 100 years Derek Lundy, his great-great nephew, has re-created that journey....
