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Sail to Adventure, edited by Anthony Churchill (Churbarry Enterprises Ltd., 7 Craven Hill, London W2 3EN, England; (44) 207 402 2247, 1999, 243pp, illus, ISBN 0-948337-05-2; $40pb seamail to US, $47pb airmail to US) From the doughty little Lady Nelson, a reproduction of a brig of 1799 sailing Tasmanian waters, to the svelte schooner Brilliant, designed by O lin Stephens and sailing o ut of southern New England waters under the flag of Mystic Seaport Museum, most of the sail training vessels of the world are recorded here in their endless and entrancing variety. The big ships aro und the world are covered, of course, from America's Eagle to Japan's Nippon Maru, along with France's historic Belem of 1896, and La France, a projected reproduction of the famous five-masted bark of the early 1900s. Stunning photographs, largely by Beken of Cowes, make these pages redolent of salt air flying over heaving decks. A well-researched text accurately summarizes the history and present uses of each ship. Not every ship that is ever involved in sail train ing is included (a virtual impossibility) but in a generous gesture the book lists every sh ip covered in the American Sail Training Association's guide, Sail TaLL Ships!, and refers the reader to that outstanding source. PETER STANFORD
trait of what it takes to build a modern destroyer. The Yard follows the conception, building and sea trial ofDDG-75, the destroyer Donald Cook. Sanders is clever in his structure and organization of the book, taki ng a subject that could easily be mind-numbingly dull and rendering it fascinating; he does not so much tell the story of the ship 's construction as he tells the story of the people who build and sail the ship, from the men and women who beat the heavy steel plates into their initial shape to those who drive the ship during their fina l "Charlie Trial." My quibbles are minor. Sanders dispenses with quotation marks completely, thanking Sebastian J unger for introducing him to this style with The Perfect Storm. Junger, however, does not dispense entirelywith such punctuation, and Sanders' s book would have read more smoothly ifhe had not either. A comparison of BIW's construction techniques with that of other yards also would have been helpful. One gets the impression that "the Yard" does things in a way unlike any other, and some indication of whether this is or is not the case would have been welcome. Bur those are minor complaints. The Yard is an excellent and insightful book, a fascinating lesson in how a modern warship goes from being no more than thousands of blue-ink renderings to a fully manned and operational ship. Michael Sanders is to be commended for a fine job. I, for one, will look down from the bridge at BIW with a new sense of wonder and appreciation. JAMES L. NELSON Harpswell, Maine
The Yard : Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron W o rks, by Michael S. Sanders (Harper Collins, New York NY, 1999, 253pp, illus, index, ISBN 0-06-019246-1 ; $26hc) On the Kennebec River in Maine, just south of the Carlton Bridge and Rte. 1, sits Bath Iron Works. It is an enigmaticsighta jumble of cranes, half-finished destroyers tied to the docks, myriad buildings, some the size of trailers, some the size of several city blocks. What goes on in there? T he answer can be found in Michael Sanders' sin-depth and h ighly readable por-
Sent Forth a Dove: Discovery of the Duyfken, by James Henderson (UniversityofWesternAustralian Press, N edlands, W. Australia, 1999, 218pp, illus, gloss, appen, notes, index, ISBN 1-876268-24-7; $45 hc) In an undertaking that began in 1994, James Henderson, tracking the voyages of the Duyjken ("little dove"), unearthed a long-buried 17th-century chart showing where Dutch sailors first saw Australia's Cape York and encountered aborigines. In 1595 the first Duyjken, a 50-ton vessel, and three larger ships became the
them into thirty-five pages of concise information, definitions, regulations and req uirements. After reading the book I highly recommend it for all seafarers from the young seaman just embarking on his career to the sea dog with more than 3 5 years behind him. WARREN LEBACK Princeton, New Jersey
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