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HEMP: COVERS OF SAILING SHIP BOOKS
of the Hemp Museum.
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ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SHIPS & BOATS. By Lionel Casson. 1964.
Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. 272 pages, 306
illustrations. Hemp was there in two of the greatest endeavors of human experience, sailing ships and the written word. It was the power of the wind caught in hemp sails held by hemp ropes that carried the commerce of the world for thousands of years. And hemp paper has been the tablet on which was written and printed the past two thousand years of human experience and invention. |
THE HISTORY OF SHIPS, By Peter Kemp. 1978. |
MEN SHIPS AND THE SEA, By Capt. Alan Villiers. 1962. An excellent history of seafaring. |
THE LORE OF SHIPS. 1966. Edited by Sam Svensson. | |
THE OLD NAVY: 1776 -
1860. 1962. NATIONAL ARCHIVES PUBLICATION NO. 62-10. A Catalog of an Exhibit of Prints and Watercolors from the Naval Collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
NAVAL BATTLES AND HEROES. 1960. American Heritage Junior Library. |
A GOODLY SHIP: The Building of the Susan Constant. 1992. The story of the ship that brought the settlers to Jamestown. Revisiting history and the art of wooden shipbuilding. |
THE WORLD'S GREAT SAILING SHIPS. 1998. By Ollivier Puget. Picture book of today's great sailing ships. |
LOST AT SEA: Great Shipwrecks of History. By Ronald Pearsall. 1978. |
CURRIER & IVES: Chronicles of America. 1968. Edited by John Lowell Pratt. Currier & Ives loved the sailing ship, especially the clipper ships. |
THE PIRATES.
1978. Time-Life Books, Inc. Book of the seafarers who waged war on the
seas against the world. Hemp rope and sails carried the good and the bad. |
WINDJAMMER. 1958. The Story of Louis deRochemont's Cinemiracle Windjammer. The ship was the Christian Radich. |
JOHN PAUL JONES: Father of the U.S. Navy. 1963. WEIR, RUTH COMER. |
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