In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fields of America and Australia, and breaki

First volume of invaluable, fully illustrated, encyclopedic review of 352 clipper ships from the period of America's greatest maritime supremacy. Introduction.

To see a clipper knife through wind-swept seas on a sprint from New York to San Francisco or between London and Hong Kong was to witness the quintessence of sai

Captain Murdock is accompanied by his wife and children as he commands a clipper ship from New York to San Francisco.

“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for d