Ships Swindlers And Scalded Hogs

Author : Frederic B. Hill
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608934519
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs written by Frederic B. Hill and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the world during that time. This colorful history of the Crookers' company by the great-great grandson of William Donnell provides a thorough overview of a family, its contributions to shipbuilding, and the historic sweep of shipbuilding in the area, as well as a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in Maine during this time. Today, a small portion of Maine's twenty-first-century shipbuilder, Bath Iron Works, occupies land that was once the Crooker yard.

Author : Alexander Jackson Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493060821
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Flick of Sunshine written by Alexander Jackson Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn and running down Alaskan glaciers over a tragically shortened life that ended in a most bizarre and pedestrian incident on the eve of realizing his life’s ambition: appointment as master of a ship. After nine months of sometimes perilous life among natives in the South Sea islands in 1884, captured in chapters of a book he helped write, Jackson served on a series of large ships and coastal schooners – all based in the post-Gold Rush boomtown of San Francisco – that took him up and down the west coast from Alaska to Mexico and to the four corners of the earth. His faithful letters to his family in Maine and a diary provide a colorful background for a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity, no small ambition and that most admirable of traits, an abiding sense of humor.

Author : Nathan Lipfert
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608936821
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding written by Nathan Lipfert and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse. Celebrating the bicentennial of Maine, historian Nathan Lipfert, in cooperation with the Maine Maritime Museum explores the rich history of Maine shipbuilding. Though concentrating primarily on shipbuilding activity in the two centuries since statehood, the book begins with pre-1820 activity, including native canoe-making (the oldest known birchbark canoe is in a Maine museum) and colonial-period shipbuilding. Covering the entire coast, this rich visual history focuses on the industry and the vessels produced, highlighting Maine’s national and international importance in shipbuilding over the past two centuries, and its continuing relevance to national security, the fisheries, yachting and harbor craft.

Author : Frederic B. Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684750458
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Tides written by Frederic B. Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before passing up a career in law for the writing life, Richard Matthews Hallett lived an exciting life of adventure, that included a stint as a police officer, and as a seaman aboard a schooner bound for Australia. He then trekked across that country and lived by his wits in England for a time before returning to the States. Later, he was a deck officer on warships convoying soldiers and horses across the Atlantic in WW I, and facing U-boat attacks. Over is life, Hallett wrote several novels and more than 200 short stories that were published in the most widely read magazines of the day, including the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Atlantic, Collier's, Everybody's, and American Legion Monthly. The stories gathered here, published in the first half of the twentieth century, include vivid tales of the sea, both in the days of sail and in the midst of war, often built around ship-board tensions and tumult; and stories of Maine and New England and their small town values and rivalries.

Author : Frederic B. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684750443
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Tides written by Frederic B. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of tales in the vein of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Rudyard Kipling written by a Maine literary lion.

Author : Frederic B. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493057672
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will Jackson written by Frederic B. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world, would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London.

Author : Frederic B Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442268786
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Kings written by Frederic B Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach around the globe. Contributors like David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire, and renowned political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as KAL), tell what it was like to work in what may have been the last golden age of American newspapers -- when journalism still seemed like “the life of kings” that H.L. Mencken so cheerfully remembered. The writers in this volume recall the standards that made the Sun and other fine independent newspapers a bulwark of civic life for so long. Their contributions affirm that the core principles they followed are no less imperative for the new forms of journalism: a strong sense of the public interest in whose name they were acting, a reverence for accuracy, and an obligation

Author : Frederic B Hill
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dereliction of Duty written by Frederic B Hill and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tears Donald Trump's presidency to shreds - exposing his ignorance, bullying, lying, racism, deep ties to Russia and destruction of America's standing in the world with fact after fact after undisputed fact, all wrapped up in a withering portrayal of the 45th president. Fred Hill doesn't spare the Republican politicians of today whom he sees as ripe for a remake of the great science fiction film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, for their craven abasement to a clownish TV reality showman who has trampled on the rule of law, our basic freedoms of the press and religion and U.S. alliances that have provided global leadership since World War II. As a foreign correspondent, senior adviser to a respected Republican senator and then head of a State Department office that conducted wargames on national security issues, the author's articles in leading U.S. newspapers applies a rare depth of experience and knowledge to a disastrous presidency that the American Political Science Association has ranked the worst in American history.

Author : George H. Devol
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557091102
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi written by George H. Devol and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. Over the years, he bilked soldiers, paymasters, cotton buyers, thieves, and businessmen alike. He fought more fights than anyone, and was never beaten. This is his story. Nobody was ever bored by it.

Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Midshipman Easy written by Frederick Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: