This preowned, hardback book with dust jacket and 160 pages was written by Robert Simper and published by Conway Maritime Press in 1984..
This copy is in very good condition.
I the first part of the book Robert Simper has looked at the development of sail training schemes to aid the development of sailing skills in young people.
The second part of the book is in the form of a gazetteer, listing over 250 surviving sailing ships from four-masted barques to Essex coast smacks.