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The New Zealand Trader Westland, built in 1878
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ECS - January 20, 2003 - This Bibliography Page will be upgraded on a regular basis over the spring of 2003 as a research tool in order to honor the many writers and artists who have made significant literary and artistic contributions to the clipper ship era. Much of the artwork featured on this site has been collecting dust on library shelves for many years. We choose to dust it off and present it to the world in this fashion for all to see. It is far easier to reach the next generation in Cyberspace with this material for the first time and encourage them to seek it out thereafter in libraries, museums and maritime bookstores once their interest is sparked. That is why this page exists, and while not yet complete, we want you to know of our intentions.
The painting of the British clipper Westland, built in Glasgow, Scotland by the shipbuilder Robert Duncan for the New Zealand passenger trade, is featured here at the top of this page, and was painted by the noted British maritime artist Jack Spurling. The picture comes from Volume Three of Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships, a wonderful book pictured by Jack Spurling, storied by Basil Lubbock and edited by Alexander Campbell. And published by Madison Square Press / Grosset & Dunlap / A National General Company / Publishers New York. This collection is also the source of our current Home Page picture of the Cutty Sark.
The next picture is by Frank J. Rigney and is from the book: The Clipper Ship, by Hawthorne Daniel. This book was published by Dodd, Mead & Company -New York in 1928. There are a number of Rigney's illustrations throughout this Web site. He is one of our favorite artists of the clipper ship era. There are others too deserving of this same consideration by us in the future, and we can now promise that more artists will be featured soon. You can find information where some of these fine old books may be obtained; primarily from good used maritime book stores listed on our Maritime Links Page.
We would like to pay homage to the many fine maritime historians of the clipper ship era that we have turned to in our quest for research material for this book and Web site. This list includes: A.B.C. Whipple, Arthur H. Clark, Carl C. Cutler, Samuel Eliot Morison, Marian Robertson, Hawthorne Daniel, Jane D. Lyon, Michael J. Mjelde and Peter Stanford to name but a few.
I do owe a great debt of gratitude to Cal Whipple and his book: The Clipper Ships, that along with his other book: The Challenge, are major sources for much of the information in my book, particularly concerning the clipper ship Sea Witch and her first captain, Robert Waterman, as well as for the exciting clipper ship race between the Flying Cloud and the Challenge around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1851, and the aftermath. Cal Whipple is a national treasure and a major source of inspiration for my writing this book and setting up this Web site in the first place.
The last chapter about the Glory of the Seas and the final days of Donald McKay recently went up to the Web site. So now we can pay more attention to the building of this archive and when finished it will have an extensive bibliography complete with a search engine on the site that will serve as an index. www.eraofthe clipperships.com will remain on the Web as a permanent archive for research into the era of the clipper ships.
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Selected Bibliography
The following books have been most helpful as research material for my book. Some listings are incomplete at the moment with just the call numbers and will have to be completed at some future time.
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Cutler, Carl C. / Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship. New York: Halcyon House, 1930.
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Clark, Arthur C. / The Clipper Ship Era: Riverside CT: 7 C's Press, 1910.
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McKay, Richard C. / Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder Donald McKay: New York - London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1928.
McKay, Richard C. / SOUTH STREET A Maritime History of New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons : New York 1934.
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Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. / Two Years Before the Mast. New York: The Heritage Press, 1947.
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Lubbock, Basil / The Colonial Clippers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, LTD, Reprinted Fourth Edition - 1955.
Lubbock, Basil / SAIL: The Romance of the Clipper Ships. Pictures by Jack Spurling - Madison Square Press, 1972. Three volume set.
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Morrison, Samuel Eliot / The Maritime History of Massachusetts. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1979.
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Fairburn, William Armstrong / Merchant Sail., Vols I - VI. Center Lovell, Maine, 1897.
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Dunbaugh, Edwin L. & Thomas, William duBarry / William H. Webb: Shipbuilder. Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, Glen Clove, NY, 1989.
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Chase, Mary Ellen / Donald McKay and the Clipper Ships. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.
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La Grange, Helen & La Grange, Jaques / Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain: 1833-1869. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936.
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Larkin, Daniel F. / New York State Canals: A Short History. Fleischmanns, New York, 1998.
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Robertson, Marion / King's Bounty. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum, 1983.
Also by Marion Robertson / The Family of Donald McKay: The McKays and McPhersons. Reprints from Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 37., 1968.
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Daniel, Hawthorne / The Clipper Ship. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.
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Laing, Alexander / Clipper Ship Men. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944.
Laing, Alexander / American Ships. New York: American Heritage Press, 1971.
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Lyon, Jane D. / Clipper Ship Captains. - American Heritage Publishing Companies, Inc.
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Maury, Matthew Fontaine / 1. The Physical Geography of the Sea. 2. Wind and Current Charts. 3. Sailing Directions.
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Howe & Matthews, Octavius T. & Frederick C. / American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1986.
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Stammers, Michael K. / The Passage Makers. Teredo Books Ltd. , 1978.
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Shaw, David W. / Flying Cloud. William Morrow, 2000.
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Lyon, Margaret & Reynolds, Flora Elizabeth / The Flying Cloud and Her First Passengers. Oakland, California. Center for the Book, Mills College, 1992.
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Whipple, A. B. C. / And the Editor of Time-Life Books / The Seafarers: The Clipper Ships - 1980. ( * Above is the cover picture. )
Whipple, A.B.C. / The Challenge. New York: Quill, 1987.
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The Champion of the Seas Times / Collection of ship's newspapers - 1855. Reproduced in facimile by the Marine Historical Assocoation, Mystic, Connecticut, 1952.
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Lane, Bruce M. / Voluminous Studies - Flying Cloud. - Peabody Museum - Essex House.
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Forbes, Allan & Eastman, Ralph M. / State Street Trust Company / Yankee Ship Sailing Cards. 1948 - Three volumes: Yankee Ship Sailing Cards, Other Yankee Ship Sailing Cards & Yankee Ship Sailing Cards Volume III - ECS - A wonderful collection of rare Yankee ship sailing cards along with short, well written histories of the many featured Boston and New England clippers along with some New York-built clippers.
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Crothers, William L. / The American-Built Clipper Ship / An International Marine/McGraw-Hill Companies Book, Camden, Maine, 1997 / Cover Painting of the Red Jacket by Percy A. Sutton, courtesy the Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine. www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org / ECS - Whenever the American people decide to build clipper ships again, this is the book that will tell them how to do it.
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Newby, Eric / The Rand McNally World Atlas of Exploration.- 910.9, N 39.
China Trade Porcelain. - 738.2, L 32.
China Trade Porcelain. - 738.2, B 38.
Howard, David Santuary / New York and the China Trade.- 738.095, H 69.
Fischer, Louis / The Story of Indonesia. - 910.924, M22.
Cruise of the Portsmouth / Yale Press.
The Building of a Wooden Ship / VM 307, G66, 1975.
History of the New York Shipyards. / VM 144. S76.
The Ship / VM15 .L213.
Kinder, Gary / Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
You can order this book from: www.amazon.com
Men, Ships and the Sea. / G 540 .V6.
West of the West./ F 864 .K57.
First and Last Consul. / F 864 .L29, 1970.
Fremont, Pathfinder of the West. / E 415.9 .F8 N46, 1955.
Fremont. / E 415.9 .F8 E 33.
Gold Rush Album. / F 865 . J215.
The Forty-Niners. / F 865 .W54.
The California Gold Rush. / F 865 .P26.
The California Gold Discovery. / F865 .C33.
California Gold. / F 865 . P25.
The Evolution of Wooden Ships. / VM 144 .674.
The East India Company. / 954.031 G27.
The Chinese Opium Wars. / 951.03 B33.
The Way of a Ship.
The Great Northwest.
Yankees Under Sail.
Fehrenbacher, Don E. / The Basic History of California. Van Nostrand Anvilbooks- 979.4, F34.
Wellman, Paul / Glory, God and Gold. Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1954. - 979.4, F34.
Lavender, David / California - A Bicentennial History - 979.4, L 28.
Tucker, Glen / Dawn Like Thunder. - 973.47, T82.
Leckie, Robert / From Sea to Shining Sea. New York: Harper Collins. 1993.
Wiltse, Charles M./ the New Nation. - 973.5, W45.
Dos Pesos, John / The Shackles of Power. - 973.5, D68.
Forester, C.S. / The Age of Fighting Sail. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1956.
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh The Rise of New York Port New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
We also acknowledge our vast collection of old American Heritage Books as a source of information and pictures as well as the inspitarion for much of the look of this Web site.
ECS - 3/04/03 - There will be a much more extensive bibliography posted here soon.
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