The Cape Horn Breed
My Experiences as an Apprentice in Sail in the Full-rigged Ship ''British Isles''
Jones, W.H.S.: 1956 UK, bound 328 pages, with photographs and illustrations. Life, in those last years of the great sailing ships, was nasty, poor, brutish and short for seamen: in a vain attempt to compete with the steam ships sailing crews were reduced to minimum, pay was scandalously low, conditions and food were both dangerous and vile. This is no romantic or sentimental picture, but a story of endurance, skill and great courage."