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Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success ...

Footner, Geoffrey M.
Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner
The fast, agile pilot schooners of Chesapeake Bay¿employed not only for piloting but for cargo-carrying¿began to build their legend in the eighteenth century, becoming blockade runners during the American Revolution, privateering vessels during the War of 1812, armed dispatch and policing vessels for European navies, and a favored type for the activities of pirates, smugglers and slavers. Variations on the final "clipper" model of the Baltimor...

CHF 52.50

Songs of the Sailor Book: Working Chanteys at Mystic Seaport

Grasso, Glenn / Bernier, Marc
Songs of the Sailor Book: Working Chanteys at Mystic Seaport
Mystic Seaport's interpretation programs include a strong sea-music component. This book of chanteys, spiral-bound to open flat for music stand or other placement, consists of 25 classic sea songs and some of their variants, accompanied by musical notations made by Marc Bernier and explanatory notes from Glenn Grasso. The notes cover the history of these songs, and explain how they are used at Mystic Seaport to accompany shipwork done by the M...

CHF 14.90

Forbidden Workers

Kwong, Peter
Forbidden Workers
Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a must-read, " Forbidden Workers tells for the first time the full story of recent Chinese immigration to this country. Widely praised from the Wall Street Journal to Asian Week, the book uses the Chinese experience to shed light on broader issues of immigration from countries around the world. Author Peter Kwong has interviewed countless immigrant workers, activists, Chinatown powerbrokers, and "snakehe...

CHF 33.90

Days of the Steamboats

Ewen, William H.
Days of the Steamboats
The exciting history of American steamboats-the palatial passenger boats and workaday freight steamers of the Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, the Great Lakes, and the Hudson and Mississippi river sytems-is colorfully narrated in picture and prose by steamboat expert William H. Ewen. This general work will appeal to young adult readers as well as older steamboat buffs.

CHF 21.90

More Scrimshaw Artists

Frank, Stuart M.
More Scrimshaw Artists
The first-ever book of its kind, a major resource for scholars, curators, maritime enthusiasts, and collectors. With a foreword by the celebrated scrimshaw historian Norman Flayderman, and contributions by Joshua Basseches, Joost Schokkenbroek, and Dr. Janet West, it presents 500 carefully documented biographical sketches of the men and women in the American and foreign whale fisheries, and in the naval and merchant services, who produced scri...

CHF 58.50