TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sperry,Armstrong
TI  - All sail set: a romance of the Flying Cloud 
T2  - Nonpareil books
SN  - 9780879235239
AV  - PZ7 .A457 1984
PY  - 1984///, (c)1935
CY  - Boston
PB  - D.R. Godine
KW  - McKay, Donald,
KW  - Flying Cloud (Clipper-ship)
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Clipper ships
N1  - Title on added t.p.: The Flying Cloud, clipper, 1851-1874; Illustrations; 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; 2; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
N2  - 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."
ER  -