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THE PASSAGE MAKERS by Michael Stammers. The author separates truth fro m myth in this scholarly and absorbing history of the Liverpool Black Ball Line, whose fleet included some of the greatest clippers of the age. Ship-owning and shipbuilding, the Australian emigrant trade and the Gold Rush years, it is all here, and the truth is better than any fiction. 530pp, illus, $31.75hb (shpg. $2.75 <lorn., $3.50 for.)
THE MARITIME HISTORY OF THE WORLD by Duncan Haws and Alex A. Hurst. Embracini;s the period from 5000BC to the present, this major work by two leading maritime historians considers wars,
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