W. H. Bunting

Sea Struck

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Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of square-rigged sailthrough the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three young men fromMassachusetts. There is plenty of adventure here- storms, men overboard,discipline that bordered on brutality, and exotic ports. There is also afascinating immersion in the lore of the sea and sail and the global web ofconnections in the New England maritime community.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Howland III, Llewellyn (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-88448-526-1
EAN: 9780884485261
Produktnummer: 19898441
Verlag: Tilbury House Publ
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H25.1 cm x B17.5 cm x D2.5 cm 680 g
Gewicht: 680

Über den Autor

W. H. BILL Bunting is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works of history including Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914; Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops: The Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins; A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920 (in two volumes); The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Sea and Shore in New England; Live Yankees; and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. With Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., he wrote An Eye for the Coast: The Monhegan and Maritime Photographs of Eric Hudson and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography.Bill Bunting shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13 and later completed a 25,000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine.