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160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part III - The Years of Achievement; A Close Look at Wood Screws, Part I; Chris White and his Multihulls; The Schooner AMERICA; Canoe Building in Vermont - Tom Hill, Carl Bausch and Ed Sturges; Just the Right Medium - Ken Bassett chooses plywood for his recreational rowing craft; Keeping a Wooden Hull From Drying Out; Winter Protection for outside-stored boats; Auxiliary Power - experiences with gas and diesel; STAR - the boat of Frederick S. Ford Jr. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Charles Wilson is no Hero - Great Train Robbery participant is responsible for what happened to the train driver Jack Adams who is pictured and quoted in this interesting article; Vintage full-page colour ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) with Colonel Sanders; The Campers are coming - new RVs - article with photos including one of a mini driving into a bus/RV; Canada's Ambassador to Japan, Herbert O. Moran opened the embassy so Japanese kids would have room to play baseball - article with photos; Easter Eggs $1,800 per Dozen - The Paris Glove Collection created by artists Harold Town, Marken Joslin, Bruce Parsons, Tobie Steinhouse, Iain Baxter, Claude Tousignant, Jacques de Tonnancour, Gita Caiserman-Roth, Jori Smith, Greg Curnoe, George Swinton and Alfred Pinsky; Marathon Swimmer Hedy Schmidt - article with nice photos; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Five Roses Flour fan club, junior division (5 kids on photo); Expo's Atlantica (six-sail schooner) goes to sea - article with nice photos. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
Book shows light wear to covers, heavy creasing at spine with some chipping away of the outer layer at the bottom spine. Binding is otherwise solid, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illumstated with a great many b&w photos, a section at back of 58 plans. "Never before has such a comprehensive compilation of watercraft in a museum collection been published. the Mystic Seaport Museum watercraft collection, largest in the United States, is a treasury of Northeastern vessel types. Not simply a collection of boats, it is also tangible evidence of a practical art form: the shaping of wood into useful and aesthetic watercraft." 280 pages. "Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft" features the 220 craft in the collection, with complete descriptions, 434 illustrations, selected plans, and supplementary reading lists. For easy reference, the vessels are arranged in four categories, according to power source. The entire volume is meticulously indexed. For the historian, the boatbuilder, and for those who appreciate fine craftsmanship, this book will provide hours of pleasure and will serve as a continuing reference." Contents include catboats, sailing dinghies, yachts, working craft, ketch rigged, schooner and square rigged, punts, skiffs, dories, pulling boats, tenders , guide boats, peapods, surf boats, shells salmon wherries, sea briight skiff, yankee skiff, waterfowl boats, inboards, outboards, paddling, canoes, dugouts kayaks,
Features: Good showing by Northern Pacific Railway Co. in Annual Report; Railway News in Brief; Fire Fighting on Locomotives; Editorial by Lewis Nixon discusses Panama Canal Tolls; Bernard N. Baker admits his Atlantic & Pacific Transportation Co. lacks funds to carry mail between the Atlantic and Pacific; The Grand Trunk's New Hotel, Chateau Laurier - feature article with excellent illustration of this fine new Ottawa hotel located on the busy Rideau Canal near Canada's Parliament Buildings; Interesting business biography of C.D. Dunnan aka "Totem Pole Charley" of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., the man who saw the great possibilities of specially conducted Alaskan cruises; Appointments, Changes, Personals, etc.; Steamship Mariposa purchased by the Alaska Steamship Company; The Panama Canal and American Commerce; How the City of Los Angeles Has Built Her Harbor; Descrimination at Panama?; Panama Canal Free Toll Question Must Be Settled; Steamer Magnolia to run between Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle; Captain Buck Bailey Saves Lives and Property - He captained the tug Tatoosh which saved 48 souls aboard the steam schooner Washington on Nov. 23 - one of the most daring rescues in the annals of North Pacific Coast shipping - major article with illustration of Capt. Bailey; Annual Report of Supervising Inspector George Uhler; Capt. John Bermingham of San Francisco near death - article with photo; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Pacific Coast casualties - tug Chemainus burns, steam schooner Westerner sunk, steam schooner Washington towed to safety, New Steamer Princess Alice a Beautiful Vessel - feature article with photo; General Shipping News; Repairs, Drydocking and Other Work; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A sound copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
88 pages. Features: Cover photo features Ontario's Deputy Minister of Game and Fish, D.J. Taylor beside a bear he shot; A Wild Goose Chase - Photo-illustrated story of Frank Piscatelli' trip to Knight Inlet for Canada Geese; Old Mission in the Rain - fishing on the 'Dog-Watch', J.(Jack) W.N. Bell's inland schooner, on Lake Temiskaming; Illustrations of 1940 Handguns; The Canadian Grizzly - photo-illustrated article on 'the most dangerous of all Canadian big game' by T.C. Young; Panapitei Watches - photo-illustrated article in Waldie County in Northern Ontario includes photos of Ontario government officials Hon. Gordon C. Conant, Hon. H.C. Nixon and D.J. Taylor; Two pages of Conservation Charts for 1939; Ted Stikeman's day of fishing speckled trout in northern Quebec; Passing of Col. J. Bruce Payne; The Setter (dog) and his food; and much more. Fantastic back cover colour-illustrated ad for O'Keefe's beer and ale features relaxing airmen in wood-panelled room. Above-average wear. Small clipping from page 21. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
175p., illus. Signed by the author with best wishes to Manny Perry. Hardcover Very good condition good
812p. + Plus frontis. Illustrated with photographs and a map. Scenic endpapers. Top edge decorated yellow. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly torn, spine faded. An account of an expedition to Greenland, on a hundred foot fishing schooner. POLAR 3
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the P & O passenger liner Chusan in San Francisco Bay; Photo inside front cover of RMS Sceptre; Full-page photo of the topsail schooner Mary Miller in 1938; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Big Ships; New Ship News; European Commentary; The Irresistible 'Ark Royal' - part 3; Ships of the Seven Seas - Traviata, Eeklo, Wild Flamingo, Aegis Baltic; The Elegant 'Chusan' - part 2 of a review of the career of the famous P & O liner from her trials in 1950 to her last voyage in 1973; Guide to Ships of the Royal Navy - part 9; The Last of 'The Vessels' - Michael Bouquet recalls the last of the coastal sailing craft trading in British waters (part 1 of 2); Readers' Album - Paddle Steamers; Ship Sales; Casualties; Letters; Nice photo of the HMS 'Petard' in 1946 inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
