Title: Disappointing print quality
Review: This is a classic, first printed in 1910. It is written informally but knowingly by a former clipper captain who had known Donald McKay personally. So far so good. The book, however, is not a standard edition. It has been produced by some sort of facsimile technology, and it's a mess. There are markings, marginalia, etc. by some unknown but no doubt (now) elderly hand. The book, one can tell from somewhere in there, was at one time part of the University of Michigan Library. The several illustrations are for the most part defective due to the process of reproduction. Page 96, to cite one instance, is hardly readable because the right margin is missing four or five letters, leaving the reader the exciting game of word guessing. This is not acceptable, either to the reading public or to the memory of the man of action turned author and historian. Shame.
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