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Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor
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Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor Hardcover - 1997

by Dana A. Story


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Renowned as the creators of New England's great fishing schooners, the shipbuilders of Essex, Massachusetts, have a 300-year history that is, as the subtitle of this impressive book attests, "a chronicle of Yankee endeavor." This book documents in text, appendices, photos and other illustrations the rise of the trade from 1634 to its glory days in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and its decline in the first four decades of this century. Dana Story, author of Growing Up in a Shipyard, has a well-deserved reputation for thorough historical research and for the ease and wit of his writing. Here he brings these qualities to a book that is in large part his own family's history. His forebears settled in Essex in 1637 and began building vessels in 1813.

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  • Title Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor
  • Author Dana A. Story
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 380
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mystic Seaport Museum, Gloucester, MA
  • Date June 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780938459095 / 0938459090
  • Weight 2.98 lbs (1.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.26 x 8 x 1.1 in (26.06 x 20.32 x 2.79 cm)

About the author

Dana A. Story was born and raised in the Essex, Massachusetts, shipyard. He is the author of Frame Up, Hail Columbia, The Building of a Wooden Ship, Building the Blackfish, and Growing Up in a Shipyard. He died in 2005.
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