ILLUSTRATED DIRECTORY SAILING SHIPS

This wonderfully illustrated directory is a single-volume technical reference work of all the major forms of sailing ships that have plied the oceans in peace and war through hundreds of years up to the latter part of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, its fabulous illustrations, which include colour paintings of the ships in all their splendour, evoke a nostalgia for a form of transport of bygone days. It describes hundreds of the world's best-known and most significant vessels of every size and type, and relates stories of their great voyages of discovery and commerce, and also the great naval battles many of them fought.