Windjammers: The Final Story

Beautifully illustrated with forty one of Robert Carter's detailed paintings. These paintings each with its own descriptions, reveal yet another story from the days of sail. Scrupulously accurate, and wonderfully evocative. Robert Carter's marine paintings are world renowned. The book is full of primary source material about the final days of the great ships - Windjammers, or Tall Ships. Every major maritime national now posses at least one sail training ship along with a plethora of other vessels engaged in charter work, together with stationary museum ships.