American ships

by Alexander Kinnan Laing

This book about the evolution of watercraft on the American continents begins with elusive evidence of Eskimo whaling nearly four thousand years ago and concludes with Antarctic whaling of the 1960s. The stress is on the period from 1492 to 1928, with chief emphasis upon the transition from sail to steam in the middle of the nineteenth century.

536 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971