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Clipper Ship Men is a new kind of book on ships. The literature of the subject is apt to divide extremely into romantic splurge over names and top hamper or fact-heavy pedantry. This is the sustained essay of a large mind regarding men, circumstances, and ships as they come together in the ultimate wind ship. For Mr. Laing the clipper was the supreme act of imagination which could have come into being only when, for a few years, artist, scientist, merchant, and sailor acted together. Thus his book is a study of men and their machines with implications which far outreach any particular era or narrow subject. . . .
Though men interested in the sea will most welcome this book, its broad and searching approach will engross any one curious of those rare creations in which science, utility, and beauty are one.
–From a review in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine by Allan MacDonald in 1944
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