Blue-Water Men and Other Cape Codders by Crosby, Katharine - 1946

New York.: The Macmillan Company., 1946. First edition. First Printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket has edge wear, with small chips. Volume has light spine end and corner bumps. Near fine.. 1 288 p. Light blue cloth over boards. B&W windmill photo illustrated jacket, royal blue border. 21 cm. B&W photos. Front end paper Cape Cod map, line art in blue. Author Katharine Crosby is a Cape Codder and a descendant of Cape Codders. She writes of the Cape, its houses and churches; its people and their stories. From the front end flap, "Some places, like some people, are a magnet for adventure. Such is Cape Cod, with a yarn for every grain of sand". Not a history, not an average tour guide, the author explored the lesser-known, made friends, listened to the stories of the remaining old blue-water men, "the great captains of sail who carried the flag to the limits of the known world".