Books of Grandes veleros

Ships to stir the seafaring heart. The zenith of the age of sail. A golden lure for clipper builders. From mold loft to launch: genesis of a Yankee clipper. Behind the romance, a bitter test of wills. Every sea a ...

The clipper ship Cutty Sark at Greenwich has on display in its hold a large collection of merchant marine figureheads. It is the largest such collection in Britain, and as far as is known the largest in the world.

De la galera a la grandiosidad de las catedrales de velas. La expansión hispánica. El Wasa: del naufragio al museo. Una hegemonía discutida. El tráfico de los armadores negreros. El nacimiento de las flotas del Estado. Los progresos de la ...

Recuerdo de Peru Galíndez. Un barco en una campa. Regatas y cruceros. El Saltillo y el Azor, frente a frente. Recreo y viajes institucionales. La gran aventura atlántica de Don Juan. Dos bodas reales. El Saltillo, aula flotante: un sábado ...

Des navires de guerre à voile. Le temps de la voile de travail. 1820-1920: Un siècle d'évolution des coques et des grééments. Les derniers témoins du commerce au long cours à la voile. L'équipage d'un voilier long-courrier. Les derniers voiliers ...

Buques, regatas y encuentros. La omnipresente madera. Jarcias, palos y aparejos. La compleja maniobra.

In 1938 Newby signed on as an apprentice in the Finnish four-masted barque Moshulu for a round-the-world voyage to carry grain to Europe from the South Australian wheat belt. It was and extraordinarily bold thing for an 18-year-old from a ...

Yacts are the ultimate symbol of total freedom in luxury travel, but the unique vessels presented in this beautifully illustrated book are the highlights of somer of the best the industry has to offer in an already competitive category. In ...

There is nothing more expensive or exclusive than a megayacht - private jets and opulent holiday villas are small luxuries by comparison - and owning one is the ultimate status symbol. In the 1950s and 60s, yachts such as Aristotle ...

Moses Rogers. Savannah Signposts. A Laudable and Meritorious Experiment. The Savannah Taker Form. The Engine. Most Tidy and Brilliant. Sea Legs. Chasing a President. Great Experiment. A Signal Trophy of American Enterprise. Impayable Gratification. At St. Petersburg. From Neva to ...

This book is an exuberant celebration of sailing in all its glory. Many of the world's most oustanding photographers from Beken of Cowes, Carlo Borlenghi and Gilles Martin-Raget to Rick Tomlinson, Franco Pace and Stanley Ronsenfeld, present their tribute to ...

Behold the vision. Glimpse a bygone era. Gaze in amanzement at beautiful and majestic vessels. Wonder how all the masts, spars and sails interact. Ponder what it takes to control them when nature's forces act. Fathom the skill it takes ...

Talls Ships in the Twenty-first CenturyTall Ships RigsThe Rig and Sail Plan of Statsraad LehmkuhlClasses of Tall ShipsTall Ships, Tall Ships!The Tall ShipsMaritime MuseumsGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Two bookends. The books in between. The Upstart Schooner that Started if All. Lord Jim Lives! The Hooligan Navy. The Inconceivable and Monstrous. Skûtsjesilen. The Levant. Withbread: The Toughest Project Going. Drama on the Banks. Season's Greetings from Carl and ...

In collaboration with historian Maynard Bray, Benjamin Mendlowitz presents a compendium of 90 wnchanting images of the world's most interesting and photogenic boats. The images cover wooden keel boats, sailing yachts, power boats and working boats from both sides of ...

A review of the last British liner company to maintain a regular weekly point-to-point ocean service, featuring every mailship built since 1890 and every other passenger liner serving from 1907 until the end of the service in 1977. In addition, ...

Curioso libro en forma de cubo formado por hojas de fotografías a todo color de veleros

Tuiga, Mariquita, Cambria, Shamrock, Eleanora, Zaca, Moonbeam, Lulworth, Sunshine, Partridge, Altaïr, Nan, Marilee, Bona Fide...nombres que nos hacen soñar, barcos legendarios y al mismo tiempo veleros clásicos entre los más hermosos jamás construidosLargo tiempo abandonados, estos magníficos aparejos han sido ...