Running Her Easting Down : The Story of the Cutty Sark and other Great China Clippers : A documentary of the development and history of the British tea clippers culminating with the building of the Cutty Sark

This fascinating and carefully written history of the Cutty Sark includes an account of life on board the clipper, and ten informative appendices, ranging from sailing records to cargo manifests. It is enhanced by numerous photographs (many of them rare), reproductions of paintings, charts and the pictorial highlight of the book, five beautiful colour plates of ship paintings by the world renowned maritime artist, John Robert Charles Spurling.