Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her by David W. Shaw

Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her

David W. Shaw

336 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud -- traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days. ...

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