All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Illustrated by Sperry, Armstrong
When his father loses his fortune at sea, a boy, Enoch Thacher, signs up with a famous shipbuilder and takes a record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the famous Flying Cloud . The Flying Cloud was a real ship and its maker was master shipbuilder, Donald McKay (1810-1880). The era depicted in this novel is a time when the windships were the queens of the ocean and sail was king. McKay’s company, located in East Boston, launched many of the fastest clipper ships in history, with Flying Cloud being his most famous ship of all.
- Publication Date
- 1935
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- Reading level
- Middle Grade
- Content warning
- None
Book tags
- Timeline
- 19th Century
- Format
- Chapter Book
- Interests
- Ships and Sailing
- Culture
- United States
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