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African Americans in the Maritime Trades
$8.50 9.95 euro
bk004
Mary Malloy
A Guide to Resources in New England
This valuable survey includes an overview of the black maritime experience and a guide to New England library and museum resources. It opens the door to a fascinating and long-neglected aspect of the American experi- ence, providing a point of embarkation for teachers, scholars, and maritime enthusiasts. (1990) 11 "x 8-1/2",26 pages,4 illustrations, bibliography.
ISBN 0-937854-30-1 (paper)
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Clipper Ship Captain
$35.00 40.95 euro
bk021
The wonderfully named Glory of the Seas was the last clipper built by Donald McKay, builder of Flying Cloud, Stag Hound and other legendary ships. This is a fascination look at ships in the Cape Horn Trade, racing from San Francisco to Europe, and the life of a master of a crack clipper in the last days of the Age of Sail. Hard cover, 256 pp 60 photos & Illus ISBN 1-889901-04-9
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Folklore and the Sea
$24.95 29.19 euro
bk010
Horace Beck
Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea "a browser's delight as well as a researcher's gold mine."
(1996) 6" x 9", xxvii plus 544 pages, 29 illustrations, bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-913372-36-6 (paper)
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for OIL and Buggy Whips
$17.95 21.00 euro
bk013
Barnard L. Colby
This book's 23 colorful biographical sketches of local whaling captains document the role of New London as a whaling port second only to New Bedford. Based upon the biographies that young New London Day reporter Barnard Colby compiled in the 1930s from original documents and family information, this revised version includes an overview of the whaling industry in southeastern Connecticut, lists of all the known local whaling and sealing masters and their voyages, and many intriguing images of New London's whaling waterfront.
(1990) 6" x 9", 224 pages, 80 illustrations, appendix, index.
ISBN 0-913372-54-4 aper)
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New England and The Sea
$17.95 21.00 euro
bk006
Robert G. Albion,
William A Baker,
Benjamin W. Labaree
This engaging history covers New England's long relationship with the sea in all its aspects. Beginning with the geologic forces that have shaped New England, the text describes the life and commerce of maritime New England through four centuries of war and peace, bringing the story up to the 1990s. Written by three distinguished maritime historians, this is still the only comprehensive source available on the subject.
(Revised edition, 1994) 7"x 10", xiv plus 308 pages, 125 illustrations, index.
ISBN 0-913372-23-4
(paper) $18.00
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An excellent book...so good that it should be on the 'required readinglist'ofevery youngster who lives within fifty miles of the New England coastline."– The American Neptune
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Oooh, You New York Girls: The urban pastorale in ballads and Songs
$8.50 9.95 euro
bk016
Stuart M. Frank
Subtitled "The Urban Pastorale in Ballads .. 'and Songs about Sailors Ashore in the Big City," this lively monograph investigates Jack's adventures ashore in the lyrics of more than a dozen last-century sailors' songs. Accompanying the lyrics are Dr. Frank's comments on the women and saloons, ports and streets described; on variations in song lyrics; and on characteristic themes and styles.
(1996) 8-1/2" x 11", 24 pages, 11 illustrations, notes, bibliography.
ISBN 0-937854-34-4 (paper)
A Kendall Whaling Museum Monograph
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Origins of Sea Terms
$19.95 23.34 euro
bk003
Origins of Sea Terms differs from existing glossaries in its emphasis on word roots and earliest meanings and in its witty style. Old salt John Rogers has compiled 1,249 entries pertaining to life onboard ship, hulls and rigging, shiphandling, sea and weather conditions, and naval and technical terms. Now in its fourth printing, Origins appeals to mariners of all services, yachtsmen, maritime scholars, and armchair sailors alike as both a reference and a source of enjoyment.
(Fourth printing, 1994) 5-1/2" x S-1/2", xv plus 220 pages, appendixes, bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-913372-31-5 (cloth)
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"For those of us who care about King Neptune's English, this one's indispensable."
– Yachting
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She Went a Whaling: Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown
$11.95 13.98 euro
bk011
edited by Ann MacKey
One of the women who accompanied her ' whaling-captain husband for an adventure on the whaling grounds, Martha Smith Brewer Brown kept a journal in 1847 and 1848, and it is presented here edited by Anne MacKay in a little book that makes a large contribution to women's history and whaling history. The very religious Martha Brown writes about her fears, her moral concerns, shipboard life, whale-hunting, and especially her dis- tress during eight months ashore in Honolulu with a baby on the way, a husband in the Sea of Okhotsk, and not enough money in her purse. (1995) 6"x 9", 104 pages, 17 illustrations, maps. ISBN 0-9631911-2-8 (paper)
An Oysterponds Historical Society Book
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Sixteen Times Round Cape Horn
$5.95 6.96 euro
bk015
Isaac Norris Hibberd
Pennsylvania farm boy Isaac Hibberd went to sea in 1881 and rapidly rose through the ranks to command Down Easters carrying grain from San Francisco round the Horn to Europe. He holds the sailing record for a round-trip voyage between San Francisco and Liverpool. In this memoir, he vividly recounts his sea career from 1881 to 1892.
(1980) 8-1/2" x 11", vi plus 44 pages, 7 illustrations, summary of voyages.
ISBN 0-913372-15-3 (paper
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The homeward Bounder
$17.95 21.00 euro
bk020
Now in its 4th printing! Floyd Beaver's critically acclaimed book of short stories. Fifteen absorbing tales of the sea from an expert sailor and master storyteller whose fiction depicts the range of maritime experience and adventure. Soft cover, 256 pp ISBN 09637586-3-2
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The Peking Battles Cape Horn
$11.75 13.75 euro
bk009
Irving Johnson
This classic sea adventure, first published in 1932, is now back in print in hardcover and softcover editions from Sea History Press, with new photos and with an Introduction by Exy Johnson. Captain Irving Johnson, in later decades renowned for his writing and voyaging aboard a succession of yachts called Yankee, went aboard the German windjammer Peking as a young sailor and adventurer in 1929, helped sail her around Cape Horn to Chile, and recorded the experience with still camera, movie camera, and the journal that became this book. It was a stormy passage, and Irving Johnson brings it to our armchairs in this great little book.
(1995) 6" x 9", xv plus 185 pages, 50 illustrations, appendixes.
ISBN 0-930248-06-6 (paper)
A Sea History Press Book
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The Sloops of the Hudson River
$19.95 23.34 euro
bk012
Paul E. Fontenoy
For more than 200 years, sloop-rigged sailing craft carried the bulk of the commerce on the Hudson River, helping to make New York America's premier seaport. Historian and model-maker Fontenoy looks at the origins of Hudson River sloops among seventeenth-century Dutch vessels, then traces the changes through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that resulted in the classic Hudson River sloop of the 1830s-50s. He also considers the revival of the type with the 1969 sloop Clearwater. Making full use of visual documentation, as well as narrative accounts and business records, he has produced the definitive work on this well-known American vessel type. The mix of plans, illustrations, and analysis make this a book for historians, modelmakers, and Hudson River enthusiasts alike.
(1994) 9 "x 8", xi plus 130 pages, 58 illustrations, 16 fold- out plans, appendixes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-913372-71-4 (paper)
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The Voyages of the Ship Revere
$15.95 18.66 euro
bk017
Opens a window on the 19th Century when sailing ships traversed the globe in search of cargo. And what cargoes they were! Coal, brooms, ice, laths, skins staves, hay, bacon, nails, oil, peas, guano, grain, rum ... Revere's 123 voyages provide a unique look back at merchant shipping in the Age of Sail Soft cover, 192 pp 43 charts, tables, photos ISBN 0963758624
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White Hats
$15.95 18.66 euro
bk018
In this second book, Floyd Beaver sets down stories he heard many years ago as a "White hat" in the U.S. and British navies. As in his earlier work, Beaver brilliantly captures his characters with keen insights and an understanding of the life of ordinary sailors in the years between the wars. Soft cover, 256 pp ISBN1889901-11-3 |
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