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From the author of <b>Godforsaken Sea</b> -- a #1 bestseller in Canada and “one of the best books ever written about sailing” (<i>Time</i> magazine) -- comes a magnificent re-creation of a square-rigger voyage round Cape Horn at the end of the 19th century. <p>In <b>The Way of a Ship</b>, Derek Lundy places his seafaring great-great uncle, Benjamin Lundy, on board the Beara Head and brings to life the ship’s community as it performs the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the sea.</p> <p>The “beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea” sailing ships could sail fast in almost all weather and carry substantial cargo. Handling square-riggers demanded detailed and specialized skills, and life at sea, although romanticized by sea-voyage chroniclers, was often brutal. Seamen were sleep deprived and malnourished, at times half-starved, and scurvy was still a possibility. Derek Lundy reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself. As Benjamin Lundy nears the Horn and its attendant terrors, the traditional qualities of the sailor -- fatalism, stoicism, courage, obedience to a strict hierarchy, eve

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Author

Derek Lundy

Publisher

Vintage Canada

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780676973679

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Adventure, Military, Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14