David Roy MacGregor Bücher

THE CHINA BIRD. The History of Captain Killick, & the Firm he Killick Martin & Company SIGNED COPY

Large hardbound book published in Switzerland by EDITA and distributed in North America by Haessner Publishing, Inc. The book contains plans and drawings of fast sailing vessels of the late 18th and much of the 19th century. From the jacket '[The author] has produced a large corpus of research into the design and performance of all classes of ships built in the nineteenth century. His plans, meticulously redrawn from primary sources, are an integral part of the development of his book."

The clipper's heyday lasted from the discovery of gold in California in 1849 until the opening of the Suez Canal 20 years later. This book focuses on the ships of the two rival nations Britain and America, built during a period of intense competition in the 1850s.