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Author | : Frank R. Donovan |
Publisher | : New York : Crowell |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : River boats |
ISBN | : |
"From flatboats to floating palaces, from the Cotton Blossom to the Staten Island Ferry"--Jacket subtitle.
Author | : David Kunz and Bill Simpson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146712401X |
"The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
Author | : Harlan Hubbard |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780813113593 |
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
Author | : Sara Wright |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780747811411 |
Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a background into the historical events that made the era perfectly ripe for the development of the steamboat industry in America in this colorful history. Steamboats will look at the people who played key roles in the development of the steam engine and paddle boats, including the important part played by the many African Americans who worked the river. Wright also examines the technology of these floating mansions, from firebaskets and cannons, to radars and whistles, to steam pressure gauges and other innovations.
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472800613 |
At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River and in the first few months both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla, converting existing riverboats for naval use. These ships were transformed into powerful naval weapons despite a lack of resources, trained manpower and suitable vessels. The creation of a river fleet was a miracle of ingenuity, improvisation and logistics, particularly for the South. This title describes their design, development and operation throughout the American Civil War.
Author | : William Least Heat Moon |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780395636268 |
The author sets out from New York City to sail his boat across the United States.
Author | : Richard H. Kirshen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476627428 |
As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and certified U.S. Navy diver in the Mekong Delta, the author was responsible for both the vessel and the lives of its crew. Ambushes and firefights became the norm, along with numerous dives--almost 300 in 18 months. Forty years after the war, he returned as a tourist. This journal records his contrasting impressions of the Delta--alternately disturbing and enlightening--as seen first from a river patrol boat, then from a luxury cruise ship.
Author | : Russell G. Ryle |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738507392 |
Provides photographs of the Ohio River and the packet boats that sailed it during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Alexander Watson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781939710857 |
The river‚"‚€‚"any river‚"‚€‚"is another planet, with its own language, rules, and culture. River Queens is a story of the unlikeliest of fellows (and a dog) coming to the river‚"‚€‚"and what happens to them once they arrive. At first glance, it seems to be a how-to manual for any adventuresome (but perhaps foolhardy) type who's ever thought of restoring a wooden yacht and sailing it halfway across the country. Second glance, however, shows that it's a classic travel narrative in which two intrepid (but perhaps foolhardy) explorers head out to tour what is usually called "a distant, alien world."
Author | : William Least Heat-Moon |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780783889849 |
The author chronicles his journey across America's waterways in his dory Nikawa (River Horse), encountering strange people, hostile cities, and hair-raising dangers.