Memories Of Steamboats
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Memories Of Steamboats
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Author : Mary Helen Butler-Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Memories Of Steamboats written by Mary Helen Butler-Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with River steamers categories.
Steamboat Memories
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Author : Colin Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Steamboat Memories written by Colin Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Steamboats categories.
Steamboats And Memories
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Author : Iva Hollingsworth Carns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Steamboats And Memories written by Iva Hollingsworth Carns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Coeur d'Alene Lake Region (Idaho) categories.
Steamboat Memories Penobscot Bay
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Author : Robert D. Witherill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Steamboat Memories Penobscot Bay written by Robert D. Witherill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with categories.
Memories Of Steamboats Campmeetings Skipjacks And Islands Of The Chesapeake
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Author : Ben Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Memories Of Steamboats Campmeetings Skipjacks And Islands Of The Chesapeake written by Ben Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Boats and boating categories.
Steamers Of The Clyde
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Author : George Stromier
language : en
Publisher: Hart & Will
Release Date : 1992
Steamers Of The Clyde written by George Stromier and has been published by Hart & Will this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Paddle steamers categories.
Steamboat Kid
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Author : Dorothy Heckmann Shrader
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Steamboat Kid written by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Hermann (Mo.) categories.
White Funnel Memories
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Author : George Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Gomer Press
Release Date : 1997
White Funnel Memories written by George Gunn and has been published by Gomer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Cargo ships categories.
A Century Of Sea Travel
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Author : Christopher Deakes
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2013-12-19
A Century Of Sea Travel written by Christopher Deakes and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with History categories.
This “handsome volume” offers a “lavishly illustrated” journey back to the golden age of steam travel through first-hand accounts and images of the passengers (Bruce Peter, author of Ship Style). A Century of Sea Travel is an eye-opening voyage through the golden years of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by the very travelers who sailed on these magnificent engineering marvels. In memoirs and letters home, diaries and the backs of postcards, the recorded experiences of every aspect of steamship travel are here relived: from details of the ships, the crew, and fellow passengers; to the food and entertainment on board; to tales of romance, accidents, and disasters; and of being dreadfully sick during storms at sea. The writers were emigrants or colonial rulers, men of letters, young men seeking their fortune, wives on their way to new homes abroad; some were rich, many were poor and escaping the hardship of downtrodden lives. All had in common the experience of voyaging at sea. Vividly brought to life by full-color and black-and-white postcards, travel posters, promotional brochures, fine art, photographs, maps, luggage labels, health inspection certificates, and itineraries, the authors have woven together word and image into a page-turning narrative that evocatively describes an age (1840–1950) now lost to time.
Old Times On The Upper Mississippi
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Author : George Byron Merrick
language : en
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company
Release Date : 2001
Old Times On The Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and has been published by Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The majesty and glory of the Great River have departed; its glamour remains, fresh and undying, in the memories of those who, with mind's eye, still can see it as it was a half-century ago. Its majesty was apparent in the mighty flood which then flowed throughout the season, scarcely diminished by the summer heat; its glory, in the great commerce which floated upon its bosom, the beginnings of mighty commonwealths yet to be. Its glamour is that indefinable witchery with which memory clothes the commonplace of long ago, transfiguring the labors, cares, responsibilities, and dangers of steamboat life as it really was, into a Midsummer Night's Dream of care-free, exhilarating experiences, and glorified achievement. Of the river itself it may be said, that like the wild tribes which peopled its banks sixty years ago, civilization has been its undoing. The primeval forests which spread for hundreds of miles on either side, then caught and held the melting snows and falling rains of spring within spongy mosses which carpeted the earth; slowly, throughout the summer, were distilled the waters from myriad springs, and these, filling brooks and smaller rivers, feeders of the Great River, maintained a mighty volume of water the season through. Upon the disappearance of the forests, the melting snows and early rains having no holding grounds, are carried quickly to the river, which as quickly rises to an abnormal stage in the early part of the season, to be followed by a dearth which later reduces the Mississippi to the dimensions of a second-rate stream, whereon navigation is impossible for great steamers, and arduous, disheartening and unprofitable for boats of any class. To most men of our day, the life of those who manned the steamers of that once mighty fleet is legendary, almost mythical. Its story is unwritten. To the few participants who yet remain, it is but a memory. The boats themselves have disappeared, leaving no token. The masters and the mates, the pilots and the clerks, the engineers and the men of humbler station have likewise gone. Of the thousands who contributed to give life and direction to the vessels themselves, a meager score of short biographies is all that history vouchsafes. The aim of the present volume is to tell something of these men, and of the boats that they made sentient by their knowledge and power; to relate something of the incidents of river life as seen by a boy during eight years of residence by the riverside, or in active service on the river itself. While it may not literally be claimed, "All of which I saw," it is with satisfaction, not unmixed with pride, that the writer can truthfully assert, "A part of which I was."