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Author | : Tom Dunlop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780615342672 |
This is the story of Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin and the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway where the sailing vessel Rebecca was designed and built. Gannon and Benjamin is one of only a few full-time boatyards in the United States devoted exclusively to the design, construction, repair, and maintenance of traditional, plank-on-frame wooden boats--Publisher's description.
Author | : Theodore J. Karamanski |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780814329115 |
The evolution of the Lake Michigan Schooner -- The maritime frontier : schooners and urban development on the Lake Michigan shore -- Before the mast and at the helm : captains and crews on Lake Michigan schooners -- Schooner City : the life and times of the Chicago River port -- Lost on Lake Michigan wrecks, rescues, and navigational aids.
Author | : Xhenet Aliu |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0803271964 |
Just down the highway from Connecticut’s Gold Coast is the state’s rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu’s Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of immigrants who found boarded-up brass mills instead of the gilded streets of America; they’re the teenaged girls raised in the fluorescent glow of Greek diners, the middle-aged men with pump trucks and teratomas. These are people who have fled, or who should have. And if they are indeed familiar, it is because Aliu writes what is real, whether we ourselves, her readers, have seen it up close or not. And her stories make sense in a way that matters. A young mother buys into a real-estate investment seminar offered on an infomercial, only to be put back into her place by a bully in foreclosure. A closeted wrestler befriends a latchkey seven-year-old neighbor who harbors secrets of her own. A YMCA counselor tries to reclaim shoes stolen by a troubled young camper. What they share is a biting humor, an eye for the absurd, and fumbling attempts at human connection, all rendered irresistible—and as moving as they are amusing—by a writer whose work is at once edgy and endearing and prize winning for reasons any reader can appreciate.
Author | : Pat Lowery Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Acclaimed children's author Pat Lowery Collins chronicles the generations-old art of shipbuilding and the extraordinary construction of a modern day schooner. Through the magic of memory and artistic imagination, a young boy sees it all unfolding once again. And through his diary and in Collins's brilliant paintings, Schooner tells the tale of shipwrights in action and of the young boy who watched and helped as the mighty vessel rose from keel to spars.
Author | : Jesse Lee Kercheval |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780803211353 |
A series of interlinked short stories chronicles the world of Alice, a girl raised in Florida, who finds love with the scion of a family of Norwegian-Wisconsin farmers, her beloved Anders, and their family as they confront the joys, sorrows, and challenges of life together in Wisconsin. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.
Author | : Theodore J. Karamanski |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814320495 |
Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.
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Publisher | : Down East Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1608934632 |
The Shipwright and the Schooner is an exploration into traditional New England shipbuilding, and it is a journey of discovery for both the author, who has spent his life building wooden boats, and the photographer, who had his first experiences in the boatyard. The book chronicles in words and stunning color photographs the construction, launch, and subsequent season of sailing aboard the Ardelle. The vessel is a testament to community involvement and a badge of honor in the age of mass production. It is a reminder of simpler times, when things were meticulously crafted by hand, and of a lifeway that has mostly vanished.
Author | : William A. Owens |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781574780048 |
"Black Mutiny" is the historical retelling of one of our nation's most dramatic national crises. It is one among many historical sources used in the development of the new motion picture "Amistad." Written as a novel in 1953 by William A. Owens, this is one historian's view of the Amistad mutiny. Based on U.S. government documents, court records, official and personal correspondence, diaries, and newspaper accounts, it tells the true story of 53 illegally enslaved Africans who revolted against their captors. After the Amistad was intercepted and seized by the United States Navy, the imprisoned Africans were forced to stand trial for mutiny and murder in a case that reached the Supreme Court. With its impassioned plea for freedom for all people, "Black Mutiny" brilliantly recreates a critical moment in America's racial history more than twenty years before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a rousing and unforgettable story of oppression, justice, and the precious cost of human dignity.
Author | : Irving Johnson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393343359 |
To trace the course of the Yankee from Gloucester harbor around the world is to re-draft in no small degree a map of strange and remote parts of the globe. Among her ports of call was Floreana in the Galapagos, then the home of the tragic Baroness and her companions. Then 3000 miles of open sea brought the Yankee to tiny Pitcairn, famous from the saga of the Bounty. And in succession Tahiti, Cook Islands, the Fiji and Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, North Borneo, and the China Sea. Followed the far East, Siam, Singapore, the East Indies and South Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, and finally, after eighteen months across the Atlantic to reach again her home port in Gloucester.On this voyage Captain Johnson and his interesting ship's company made many inland explorations among strange lands and native peoples. New islands were charted and places visited hitherto unknown to white men's experiences. Their discovery of one of the highest waterfalls in the world, which they promptly named "Yankee Falls," is an unusual tale among modern seafaring chronicles. They day by day story of the Yankee's voyage and the uncommon experiences of her people is written in the good deep sea tradition--a simple terse style and great economy of expression. All in all the reader will find here a grand tale of the sea.
Author | : Susie Yakowicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : Schooners |
ISBN | : 9780965254625 |