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Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship

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Somewhere about two thirds of the way through this book I put it down & said to myself "these people are crazy!" Then I picked it up again and said "But Gosh, I wish I could have been there". A good chunk of the book is background to clipper ships in general & specifically the history of the "last American Clipper" but there is also the riveting account of a group of "crazies" who find the remains of SNOWSQUALL abandoned and rotting at a dock in the South Atlantic and do their best to save at least part of her for a maritime museum back in the States. That they succeed (at least in part) frankly left me a little teary-eyed. Those of you who aren't at least a little bit "odd" when it comes to Tall Ships may say "why bother?" My guess is that after reading this book you may begin to understand. For those of us who already have the disease, you will be rooting for the authors and their friends the whole way. Nicely written, nicely illustrated, a real "keeper".

Nick Dean, the author of the book, Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship, offers an impassioned study of the history of the great seafaring clipper Ship christened SNOW SQUALL and the long, vigorous tradition of the American navigational culture that once marked the oceans surrounding the new Republic. The book tells a deft and focused story of the heroic ship and its seasoned crews with an expertise of a naval historian, photographer and artist, the author's alter ego.