Mooncussers Of Cape Cod
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Mooncussers Of Cape Cod
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Author : Henry Crocker Kittredge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Mooncussers Of Cape Cod written by Henry Crocker Kittredge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Transportation categories.
Shipmasters Of Cape Cod
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Author : Henry C. Kittredge
language : en
Publisher: On Cape Publications
Release Date : 1998-02
Shipmasters Of Cape Cod written by Henry C. Kittredge and has been published by On Cape Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02 with Cape Cod (Mass.) categories.
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935.
Tall Tales Of Cape Cod
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Author : Marillis Bittinger
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-07-10
Tall Tales Of Cape Cod written by Marillis Bittinger and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-10 with Fiction categories.
"Tall tales of Cape Cod" by Marillis Bittinger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Ptown
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Author : Peter Manso
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2003-05-06
Ptown written by Peter Manso and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-06 with History categories.
Rich with anecdotes about famous and infamous residents (Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando), "Ptown" is a lively, penetrating, and occasionally shocking look at Provincetown, Massachusetts, by writer Manso, who has lived there for much of his life. 16-page photo insert.
The Wreck Of The Portland
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Author : J. North Conway
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-01
The Wreck Of The Portland written by J. North Conway and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with History categories.
The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was one of New England's largest and most luxurious paddle steamers, and after nine years' solid performance, she had earned a reputation as a safe and dependable vessel. In November 1898, a perfect storm formed off the New England coast. Conditions would produce a blizzard with 100 miles per hour winds and 60-foot waves that pummeled the coast. At the time there was no radio communication between ships and shore, no sonar to navigate by, and no vastly sophisticated weather forecasting capacity. The luxurious SS Portland, a sidewheel steamer furnished with chandeliers, red velvet carpets and fine china, was carrying more than 200 passengers from Boston to Portland, Maine, over Thanksgiving weekend when it ran headlong into a monstrous, violent gale off Cade Cod. It was never seen again. All passengers and crew were lost at sea. More than half the crew on board were African Americans from Portland. Their deaths decimated the Maine African American community. Before the storm abated it became one of the worst ever recorded in New England waters. The storm, now known as “The Portland Gale,” killed 400 people along the coast and sent more than 200 ships to the bottom, including the doomed Portland. To this day it is not known exactly how many passengers were aboard or even who many of them were. The only passenger list was aboard the vessel. As a result of this tragedy, ships would thereafter leave a passenger manifest ashore. The disaster has been blamed on the hubris of the captain of the Portland, Hollis Blanchard, who decided to leave the safety of Boston Harbor despite knowing that a severe storm was hurtling up the coast. Blanchard, a long-time mariner, had been passed over for a promotion for a younger captain. He decided he wanted to show the steamship company that they had made a mistake by getting the Portland safely into port ahead of the imminent storm. Author J. North Conway has created here a personal, visceral account of the sinking and the times and the people involved, with stories to bring readers onto the Portland that day: Here is Eben Heuston, the chief steward onboard the ill-fated ship. More than half of the crew of the ship were African Americans. Hueston was an African American who lived in the Portland community of Munjoy Hill and was a member of the Abyssinian Church. After the sinking of the Portland the African American community disappeared and the church closed. And Emily Cobb a nineteen year old singer from Portland’s First Parish Church who was scheduled to give her first recital at the church on that Sunday. And Hope Thomas who came to Boston to shop for Christmas and because she decided to exchange some shoes she purchased missed taking the ill-fated Portland. Because of the lack of communications from Maine to Cape Cod, it was days before anyone was able to get word about the fate of the ship or survivors. Author J. North Conway has painstakingly recreated the events, using first-hand sources and testimonies to weave a dramatic, can’t-put-it down narrative in the tradition of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Walter Lord’s enduring classic, A Night to Remember. He brings the tragedy to life with contemporaneous accounts the Coast Guard, from Boston newspapers such as the Globe, Herald, and Journal, and from The New York Times and the Brooklyn DailyEagle.
Historic Cultural Land Use Study Of Lower Cape Cod
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Author : Richard D. Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Historic Cultural Land Use Study Of Lower Cape Cod written by Richard D. Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.) categories.
Shipwrecks Of Cape Cod Stories Of Tragedy And Triumph
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Author : Donald Wilding
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-24
Shipwrecks Of Cape Cod Stories Of Tragedy And Triumph written by Donald Wilding and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-24 with History categories.
From the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod's outer beach--often referred to as the "Graveyard of Ships"--saw the demise of more than three thousand vessels along forty miles of shifting shoals. The October Gale of 1841 claimed the lives of fifty-seven sailors from Truro, a devastating toll for a small seaside community. Survivors from the 1896 wreck of the Monte Tabor in Provincetown were arrested for a suspected mutiny. Aboard the Castagna, which stranded off Wellfleet in 1914, several sailors froze to death in the masts, while the crew's cat survived. Local author Don Wilding revisits these and many other maritime disasters, along with the heroic, and sometimes tragic, rescue efforts of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard.
The Outer Beach A Thousand Mile Walk On Cape Cod S Atlantic Shore
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Author : Robert Finch
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-05-09
The Outer Beach A Thousand Mile Walk On Cape Cod S Atlantic Shore written by Robert Finch and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Nature categories.
A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape. Those who have encountered Cape Cod—or merely dipped into an account of its rich history—know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: “No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment.” And nowhere within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along the forty miles of Atlantic coast—what Finch has always known as the Outer Beach. The essays here represent nearly fifty years and a cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the Cape’s legendary arm. Finch considers evidence of nature’s fury: shipwrecks, beached whales, towering natural edifices, ferocious seaside blizzards. And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. Throughout these essays, Finch pays tribute to the Outer Beach’s impressive literary legacy, meditates on its often-tragic history, and explores the strange, mutable nature of time near the ocean. But lurking behind every experience and observation—both pivotal and quotidian—is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? Finch’s affable voice, attentive eye, and stirring prose will be cherished by the Cape’s staunch lifers and erstwhile visitors alike, and strike a resounding chord with anyone who has been left breathless by the majestic, unrelenting beauty of the shore.
The Mooncusser
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Author : H. P. Dunne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Mooncusser written by H. P. Dunne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
C William Shackleton IC, with no period), has talked his best friends into backing his dream of turning a decrepit hotel on the New Jersey shore into a Club Med. The trouble is, the inn seems haunted by a force that causes people to speak with stunning honesty ... it makes everyone who visits true to what he or she is, for better or worse.Ireland by the Sea is McWilly's last change to make ithis company downsized him, his third marriage has crumbled, costing him his son, just as long ago he lost his daughter. Ghosts from the past, waiting for him there, are real, and they have plans for him. It turns out that he is in for more salvation than one man should have to endure ... unless he deserves it.
Remember Me
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Author : Mary Higgins Clark
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Remember Me written by Mary Higgins Clark and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Fiction categories.
Unable to forgive herself for the death of her two-year-old son Bobby in a car accident, Menley Nichols' marriage to Adam starts to fall apart- until the birth of their daughter Hannah. Determined to rebuild a life together around their precious baby, Menley and Adam decide to rent a house on Cape Cod for a month, confidant that the tranquility of the place will be ideal for Menley and little Hannah. But the peace they crave is disturbed when strange things start to happen- incidents which make Menley relive the horror of the accident in which she lost Bobby. . . incidents which make her fear for Hannah. And step by step, Menley and Adam are drawn into a dark and sinister web of events whcih threatens their marriage, their child and ultimately Menley's sanity.