Pacific Sail - Four Centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific

David Bateman, 1987
Highlights a few of the host of ships which sailed the Pacific during the nineteenth and twentieth century. The vast Pacific Ocean has been sailed by ships from the west for many centuries. they have carried explorers, adventurers, traders, whalers, pirates, privateers and immigrants. This book is primarily about these ships and their evolution from the tiny carracks used by Magellan in 1520 until steam had mostly outmoded sail in the twentieth century. All these vessels are realistically depicted in the superb paintings and the detailed writing which constitute the important and beautiful addition to maritime literature...