Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: [Leica] Standalone still fotos
From: "Michael Robertson" <mrobertson@k-online.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:08:11 -0800

Jesse Hellman wrote:

>At the South Street Seaport in Manhattan is a German four-masted ship, on
>which you can see a film. Sometime early in the last century one of the
>crew had recorded some of the life of the ship. He was up in the rigging
>with his camera (no lightweight, either) while the ship rounded Cape Horn
>in a gale. You see the bowsprit, fifty feet off the water, repeatedly
>going under. How anyone ever survived those passages is a miracle to this
>city-dweller.

See the books of Alan Villiers for fascinating pictures of 19th and 
early 20th century sailing ships at sea.

Villiers, Alan
_By Way of Cape Horn_
Garden City Publishing Co.,Garden City,1930



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Michael Robertson
Oceanside CA USA