In July 1899 the young Basil Lubbock signed on as an ordinary seaman aboard the four-mast barque Royalshire of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for home. His day-by-day account follows the crew through the North Pacific, the South Seas, the gales off Cape Horn and the long haul up the Atlantic, recording work, food, songs and shipmates.
A vivid first-hand record of the last days of sail by its best-known historian. Download the free EPUB.