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All sail set : a romance of the Flying Cloud / written and illustrated by Armstrong Sperry ; introduction by William McFee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Boston : D.R. Godine, (c)1984, (c)1935.Edition: sixth editionDescription: xvi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780879235239
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ7 .A457 1984
  • PZ7
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Contents:
A Ship Is Born -- The Unforseen Happens--I Go to Sea -- I Make Three Friends--and Get My Sea Legs -- My First Fight--and an Enemy Made -- A Passport from Neptune--and Trouble in the Foc'sle -- Yarns Spun in the Second Dogwatch--We Hear Tell of the Corposant -- The Flying Cloud in the Roaring Forties--We See the Corposant--Tragedy off Cape Horn -- The Pacific Slant--Whates--I Remember a Vow -- Land Ho! A Nugget of Gold--A Ship Clears for China.
Messina Clarke was a small man but tough -- Turning back to me, Donald McKay demanded, "An' what mak's ye come to me for a position?" -- Here I felt at home and here I had passed the happiest hours of my life -- Old Messina Clarke -- The Flying Cloud...lay at the water's edge -- I kissed my mother good-by -- By twelve noon I went aboard my ship -- Sail-plan of the clipper -- Captain Creesy saw the men coming and stopped in his stride -- Up the narrowing web of the shrouds Sneed fled with the mate at his heels -- Sometimes of an early evening, Brick and I...would climb hand over hand to the upper rigging -- We had picked up the southeast trades -- The single peak...reared like a gigantic finger -- "Go ahead then!" the mate yelled, beside himself by now -- "Stern all!" yelled the mate, and the boat was instantly oared backward to clear the whale -- The breeze had freshened, and Captain Creesy gave the order to return to the Flying Cloud -- One of the men...I had never seen before -- There was a ship out there beating across the bay with all canvas spread.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1936
Subject: When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the "Flying Cloud."
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Title on added t.p.: The Flying Cloud, clipper, 1851-1874.

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I Meet Donald McKay--and Swear a Vow -- A Ship Is Born -- The Unforseen Happens--I Go to Sea -- I Make Three Friends--and Get My Sea Legs -- My First Fight--and an Enemy Made -- A Passport from Neptune--and Trouble in the Foc'sle -- Yarns Spun in the Second Dogwatch--We Hear Tell of the Corposant -- The Flying Cloud in the Roaring Forties--We See the Corposant--Tragedy off Cape Horn -- The Pacific Slant--Whates--I Remember a Vow -- Land Ho! A Nugget of Gold--A Ship Clears for China.

Every hour that I was not in school, found me down at the wharves -- Messina Clarke was a small man but tough -- Turning back to me, Donald McKay demanded, "An' what mak's ye come to me for a position?" -- Here I felt at home and here I had passed the happiest hours of my life -- Old Messina Clarke -- The Flying Cloud...lay at the water's edge -- I kissed my mother good-by -- By twelve noon I went aboard my ship -- Sail-plan of the clipper -- Captain Creesy saw the men coming and stopped in his stride -- Up the narrowing web of the shrouds Sneed fled with the mate at his heels -- Sometimes of an early evening, Brick and I...would climb hand over hand to the upper rigging -- We had picked up the southeast trades -- The single peak...reared like a gigantic finger -- "Go ahead then!" the mate yelled, beside himself by now -- "Stern all!" yelled the mate, and the boat was instantly oared backward to clear the whale -- The breeze had freshened, and Captain Creesy gave the order to return to the Flying Cloud -- One of the men...I had never seen before -- There was a ship out there beating across the bay with all canvas spread.

When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the "Flying Cloud."

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Newbery Honor Book, 1936

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