Focused on codfishing, shipbuilding, sea captains, and maritime law in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a seaport that was for two centuries the principal codfishing port of the new world. A portrait of the Grand Banks fishery and the clipper ship era. Includes 19th century documents. Set against the backdrop of the town's fishing industry between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
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Focused on codfishing, shipbuilding, sea captains, and maritime law in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a seaport that was for two centuries the principal codfishing port of the new world. A portrait of the Grand Banks fishery and the clipper ship era. Includes 19th century documents. Set against the backdrop of the town's fishing industry between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
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New in Fine jacket. Book. 7 1/4 By 10 1/4" No damage to book, DJ has small fold to inside front flap. Backward, little town that produced a great number of famous yachts, fishermen, sailors and ship captains. A Home grown Supreme Court Justice established the maritime law for the U.S. based on his experience.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 191 pages, illustrated in b&w. "Marblehead, Massachusetts, was for two centuries the principal codfishing port of the new world, and at the same time raised large numbers of ship captains who set standards of skill and perseverance throughout the world's oceans. Yet little was known of this insular town during the 18th and 19th centuries by outsiders-a town that, in our day, has became a famous yachting center. Those outsiders that did visit Marblehead briefly and commented on it, criticized it for being backward, dirty, and immoral." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.
