Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- Michael Robertson Oceanside CA USA