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The Tancook schooners : an island and its boats / Wayne M. O'Leary.
LIBRA F1039.T2 O54 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Leary, Wayne M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schooners--Nova Scotia--Tancook Island--History.
- Schooners.
- Shipbuilding.
- History.
- Tancook Island (N.S.)--History.
- Tancook Island (N.S.).
- Shipbuilding--Nova Scotia--Tancook Island.
- Nova Scotia--Tancook Island.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1994]
- Summary:
- Wayne O'Leary provides detailed descriptions of how the schooners were conceived and perfected, and paints a vivid picture of life on Tancook from the late eighteenth century into the twentieth century. He shows how national and international developments affected the lives of the Tancook Islanders and the character and uses of the vessel for which they became famous. He also includes many stories about individual builders and a wealth of photographs and drawings. The Tancook Schooners will be of interest to maritime enthusiasts as well as maritime, economic, and social historians.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773511725
- 0773512063
- OCLC:
- 30668615
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