The Western Ocean Packets by Basil Lubbock Our Price: $5.95 ADD TO CART Publication Info: 155 pages Dover Publications, Inc.; ISBN: 0486256847; Dimensions (in inches): 5.25x8.5 Description: In this vivid and carefully written account, a noted maritime historian describes in fascinating detail the gripping adventures encountered on gallant hard-sailing packets - mid-19th-century sailing ships used to carry passengers, mail and cargo between Europe and America, and emigrants in the years before transatlantic travel by steamship became commonplace. Softcover.
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