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About the Author
Brian Stafford is an economist by profession and an alumnus of Sydney University, from which he holds two degrees and a Sailing Blue. Although he did not see the sea until he was fourteen years old, it was love at first sight. Since first moving across water in a small dinghy, he has owned four sailing boats and has had a lifetime interest in all things maritime, especially the history of merchant ships. Besides various voyages, he has circumnavigated Tasmania in his own boat and sailed on a square-rigger on a similar voyage. As well as the practicalities of sailing, as an economist and student of political systems, he is interested in understanding the commercial, social and political forces that drove the development of sailing ships. They are major themes of The Great Windships.
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