466 : The Atlantic 



There are a number of books on slave ships and slaving. The Marine 

 Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts, published a volume of col- 

 lected pieces on this subject. There is also The American Slave Trade 

 by John R. Spears, 1901, and The Atlantic and Slavery by H. A. Wynd- 

 ham, London, Oxford University Press, 1935. Chappelle in the work 

 referred to above deals with the form of the slave ship. 



The Ocean Tramp by Frank C. Hendry, London, Collins, 1939, is 

 a special volume. 



On the liners there are a number of volumes of variable value, such 

 as Passenger Liners of the Western Ocean (1838 to 1952), by C. R. 

 Vernon Gibbs, London, Staples Press, 1952: this work is the latest and 

 best; The Story of the Liner, S. Jackson, London, Harrap (no date); 

 Lives of the Liners, Frank O. Braynard, New York Cornell Maritime 

 Press, 1947. 



There is no writer whose works give us so complete and revealing a 

 picture of the changes that have taken place in the life of the ocean in 

 our time as those of Sir David Bone. He has experienced it all in 

 peace and in war, from the time he was an apprentice in square-riggers 

 to the time when he commanded great modern liners. He knows 

 what stores of knowledge and reserves of strength are needed to insure 

 the safety and comfort of travelers at sea. He can describe not only 

 the outward changes of forms of ships and fashions of travel, but also 

 suggest how accompanying changes in tempo and spirit have affected 

 travelers and crews and captains, and so altered life at sea. The record 

 begins with The Brassbounder, continues in Merchantman at Arms 

 and others, and culminates in his recent work. Landfall at Sunset. 



I am grateful to Cass Canfield, Jr., for his patient and discerning 

 work as editor of this volume. 



In the end, my greatest debt is to the late Thomas R. Coward, pub- 

 lisher, who believed in this book; my greatest regret is that he could 

 not see it completed; my greatest hope is that it will justify his judg- 

 ment. 



Leonard Outhwaite 

 Long Beach, California 

 May, 1957. 



