Enjoy the adventures of a clipper ship in the early Nineteenth Century. The John Gilpin sailed from Baltimore and New York to South American ports and on to Canton in China. These were the times of brave sailors, sturdy ships, and speed. The author traces the John Gilpin's history from birth in St. Michaels, Maryland to China races and to catastrophe in a New York snowstorm.
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