The catalogue for a traveling exhibition that will open in December 1997 at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, this fascinating book features 100 historical photos depicting the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Each photo chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years--shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters, and much more.
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The catalogue for a traveling exhibition that will open in December 1997 at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, this fascinating book features 100 historical photos depicting the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Each photo chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years--shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters, and much more.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Collectible, Fine. Book Folio, softcover, fine in gray pictorial wraps. 100 photographs annotated in Black-and-white and introduction by John Szarkowski essays by Richard Benson 245 pages.
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Very Good++ Size: 0x0x0; Mariners Museum 1997 First Printing. Fine and unread condition clean tight and bright, cover is clean and bright, spine is smooth and not creased.