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The Salty Shore
John Leather
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Description for The Salty Shore
Paperback. Considered to be the saltiest shore in England, the Blackwater provides the background for John Leather's story of Essex seafaring. It is an accurate study of men and craft that have sailed form the small communities beside this broad estuary and river. Num Pages: 200 pages, 200pp illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAX; HBTM; WGG; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 176 x 18. Weight in Grams: 548.
Considered to be the saltiest shore in England, the Blackwater provides the background for John Leather's story of Essex seafaring. It is an accurate study of men and craft that have sailed form the small communities beside this broad estuary and river. It is a varied story where fishermen, bargemen, boatbuilders, sailmakers, wildfowlers and often smugglers join the sailing smacks and bages, brigs, bumkins and gunpunts in this workaday watery world. The great yachts are there too, and the local seamen who became captains and crews when summer cruising and racing, even to crossing the Atlantic in quest of the ... Read more
Considered to be the saltiest shore in England, the Blackwater provides the background for John Leather's story of Essex seafaring. It is an accurate study of men and craft that have sailed form the small communities beside this broad estuary and river. It is a varied story where fishermen, bargemen, boatbuilders, sailmakers, wildfowlers and often smugglers join the sailing smacks and bages, brigs, bumkins and gunpunts in this workaday watery world. The great yachts are there too, and the local seamen who became captains and crews when summer cruising and racing, even to crossing the Atlantic in quest of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
547g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780954275013
SKU
V9780954275013
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
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