Sea Struck
By William H. Bunting Sea Struck is about the final decades of American square-rigged sail, as recorded in first-hand accounts of voyages made by three young men from Massachusetts. Frank Besse and Carleton Allen kept fascinating accounts while sailing as paying passengers aboard their ships. Rodman Swift's journal, kept in secret aboard the steel four-masted bark Astral, relates the reality of a prolonged and difficult voyage from Philadelphia to Japan and finally to San Francisco.
Sea Struck, Published by Tilbury House, 2004
Hardcover, 366 pages with b/w images
