The Log of Mystic Seaport
Title | The Log of Mystic Seaport PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
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Christmas Memories Book
Title | Christmas Memories Book PDF eBook |
Author | Applewood Books |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780939510849 |
This 20 year diary has fine calligraphy and drawings by Lynn Anderson. Each year features a pen and ink drawing of a different 19th century tradition, accompanied by an explanation of the holiday custom featured. Record visitors, special Christmas cards, family photographs and other memories.
"Mystic Built"
Title | "Mystic Built" PDF eBook |
Author | William N. Peterson |
Publisher | Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780913372517 |
From the shipyards at Mystic and Noank came nearly 2,000 vessels, including clipper ships, Civil War steamships, deep-water merchant ships, and, coastal barges. The author, Mystic Seaport's Curator of Collections, spent nearly a decade researching the local shipyards and the vessels built there. Mystic Built was named best book of 1989 on American maritime history by the North American Society for Oceanic History and received an award of merit from the Connecticut League of Historical Societies.
The Log of Mystic Seaport
Title | The Log of Mystic Seaport PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2004 |
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Yacht Designs
Title | Yacht Designs PDF eBook |
Author | William Garden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2017-04 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9781888671483 |
Garden's career as both a yacht designer and builder spanned well over six decades and untold hundreds of boats sailing canoes, salmon trollers, tugboats, cruising ketches, gaff-rigged cutters with plumb stems, easily built pocket cruisers, racers, luxury yachts, trading schooners, pulling boats, classic power launches, production fiberglass cruisers and patrol boats. Such a great variety of boats each given his special touch. Garden's writing style is just as far-ranging and eclectic as his boats, whimsical and informative, light-hearted yet solidly grounded, serious, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging. In short, as good as his drawings. The original edition of Yacht Designs was published in 1977 and, after several printings, had gone completely out of print. In his moreorless retirement, Bill Garden had time to write more of the essays on his own designs that made him a popular feature of The Rudder magazine. He revised and expanded the essays from the original edition and added over 30 more boats, many never before published, and even a few dream ships that were never built, all combined and brought together in this volume. Each essay is as different as the boat it describes, sometimes explaining the building process or a particular aspect of it in detail, or the events that led to a design, or the individuals involved, or the evolution of a yacht type, or Bill's own unique outlook on life and the boats he loved. So pick a boat and climb aboard, or just start at the beginning and go on to the end. You might just find your own dream ship in these pages. See why Bill Garden has been an inspiration to succeeding generations of yacht designers! We can only thank God for his talent and generosity in encouraging and mentoring us, and his hospitality at his island office.
Record of American and Foreign Shipping
Title | Record of American and Foreign Shipping PDF eBook |
Author | American Bureau of Shipping |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1276 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Ship registers |
ISBN |
The Logbooks
Title | The Logbooks PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Farrow |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081957306X |
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely. When writer Anne Farrow discovered the significance of the logbooks for the Africa and two other ships in 2004, her mother had been recently diagnosed with dementia. As Farrow bore witness to the impact of memory loss on her mother's sense of self, she also began a journey into the world of the logbooks and the Atlantic slave trade, eventually retracing part of the Africa's long-ago voyage to Sierra Leone. As the narrative unfolds in The Logbooks, Farrow explores the idea that if our history is incomplete, then collectively we have forgotten who we are—a loss that is in some ways similar to what her mother experienced. Her meditations are well rounded with references to the work of writers, historians, and psychologists. Forthright, well researched, and warmly recounted, Farrow's writing is that of a novelist's, with an eye for detail. Using a wealth of primary sources, she paints a vivid picture of the eighteenth-century Connecticut slavers. The multiple narratives combine in surprising and effective ways to make this an intimate confrontation with the past, and a powerful meditation on how slavery still affects us. A Driftless Connecticut Series Book, funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.