This is a comprehensive history of the schooner since its development early in the seventeenth century in Holland right down to the present day. This book is in the same series as Square Rigged Sailing Ships and Clipper Ships, written by David MacGregor.
Celebrated maritime historian David MacGregor wrote a great number of books around all classes of ships built in the nineteenth century. The David MacGregor library in the Brunel Institute at the SS Great Britain is named in his honour.
Hardcover
144 pages
Publisher: Argus Books
ISBN: 085242774