Gloucester on the Wind America's Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail
Year: 1995 Language: english Author: Joseph E. Garland Genre: History Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9781439616239 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 128 Description: Originally founded by a fishing company in 1623, Gloucester has always been linked to fishing and the sea. By 1870 Gloucester was the leading fishing port in the Western Hemisphere, and its great fleet of fast, white-winged schooners ranged deep into the heart of the Atlantic fishing cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel, and also whales. The beautiful ships and the men who sailed them made Gloucester an evocation of courage, perseverance, and seamanship unique in America's maritime heritage, and constitute the subject of this book. Photographs are document, discovery of a near past and instruments of preservation at the same time. This book illustrates, with photographs of the time and captions, the life on the sea and on land of the time, of the men and ships that made the history of fishing and navigation.
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Gloucester on the Wind America's Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail
Year: 1995
Language: english
Author: Joseph E. Garland
Genre: History
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9781439616239
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 128
Description: Originally founded by a fishing company in 1623, Gloucester has always been linked to fishing and the sea. By 1870 Gloucester was the leading fishing port in the Western Hemisphere, and its great fleet of fast, white-winged schooners ranged deep into the heart of the Atlantic fishing cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel, and also whales. The beautiful ships and the men who sailed them made Gloucester an evocation of courage, perseverance, and seamanship unique in America's maritime heritage, and constitute the subject of this book. Photographs are document, discovery of a near past and instruments of preservation at the same time. This book illustrates, with photographs of the time and captions, the life on the sea and on land of the time, of the men and ships that made the history of fishing and navigation.
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