Search Results: Literature: Maritime from The Owl at the Bridge

American Neptune, Salem, Mass. [Anthoensen Press / Meriden Gravure], 1948. Periodical. Includes obituary of Lincoln Colcord; Henry Eckford's 'United States' of 1831; Designs of our First Frigates; Struggle for the Cape Henry Lighthouse, 1721-91; Early Great Lakes Steamboats-- Battle of Windmill & Afterward, 1838-42 [&] Warships & Iron Hulls; Chanteying Aboard American Ships; Early Description of Birch-Bark Canoes; Emigrant Ship to Copra Hulk. The Iron Bark 'Bougainville'; Exodus 1947, an Interim Report on the Career of Steamship 'President Warfield'; Folklore and Anthropological Literature as a Source for Maritime Historians; Speed, Size, and Model; Contract for Building a Bark, 1880; Life Preserving Dress; Maine West India Trade; Early History of Midway Islands; Ships that Tested Blockade of Carolina Ports; 'Elegant' Steamboat 'Commonwealth'; Naval Action on Lake Champlain, 1776; Captain Philo McGiffin at Battle of Yalu; American Four-Mast Bark 'Star of Poland', ex-'Acme'; Canoe from the Penobscot… Read More

The second book published by William McFee while he was still an active chief engineer on ships, giving authenticity to his stories of the sea. This book was included in The Modern Library and has been reprinted regularly. [v], 481 pages; 19.5 cm. A 1923 pencil gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Spine faded. Stock#101355a.

Mostly British and American verse; sections include Sounds of the Sea; Man and the Sea; Tales of the Sea; Laughter of the Waves; Legends of the Sea; Te Sea as Metaphor. Hardcover. xix, 300 pages, index; dust jacket; ink inscription on first flyleaf; Very Good. Stock#100601/h.

Boston, Little, Brown [c1960]. Hard Cover. xii, 337 p., 21.5 cm.Book club edition of the novel based on the 1789 mutiny against Captain Bligh. Stock# 39,274. Vg/ color color pictorial dj vg.. American literature, historical fiction; British maritime history, naval history.

"Dana was a shrewd observer, but he never holds up his narrative for the sake of fancy character drawing. ...The style never sags. There is power, too, in Dana's understatements, and even in his reticence." See Great and Good Books #185 for the LEC version. Hard Cover. xx, 346 pages, illustrations; bound in tan pictorial cloth; spine a little scuffed; VG+ in blue cardboard slipcase, with Sandglass. Stock#100279/h.