Falmouth for Orders: The Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn

From far off Australia around treacherous Cape Horn, raced the last of the grand, old square riggers. " Once, when clipper ships of old were the main link between the early towns of Australia and the Old Country from which they sprang, a dance aboard the ships as they lay at the wharves of Melbourne or Sidney was a great social occasion, to be looked froward to with many a fluttering heart and looked back upon with many a pleasant memory."