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Sea History Press publishes reference works on historic ships, maritime museums, and classics of sail training.
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This first of the two-volume Voyages
covers the American maritime experience
from the discovery of the continent to
the end of the Civil War. 416 pages, soft cover.
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by Dr. Joshua Smith
Volume I: The Age of Sail, 1492-1865
Volume II: The Era of Engines, 1865-Present
Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the University Press of Florida, the selections chosen for this anthology of primary texts and images place equal emphasis on the ages of sail ...
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This second of the two-volume Voyages
covers the American maritime experience
from the end of the Civil War through the War
on Terror. 448 pages, soft cover.
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... and steam, on the Atlantic and Pacific, on the Gulf Coasts and the Great Lakes, and on the high seas and inland rivers.
The texts have been chosen to provide interesting, usable, and historically significant documents that will prompt class discussion and critical thinking. In each case, the material is linked to the larger context of American history, including issues of gender, race, power, labor, and the environment.
Joshua Smith, associate professor of humanities at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, is the author of Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820, winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award for Best U.S. Maritime History. |
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179 pages, soft cover, illustrated.
"Terry Walton knows how to tell maritime stories. This book is a must read for lovers of the sea."
- William F. Baker,Channel Thirteen/
WNET New York
"Harbor Voices is timely, instructive and -
dare we say it - inspiring, as our city reconnects
with its long-neglected waterfront."
- Kent Barwick, Municipal Art Society
Profusely illustrated - South Street Seaport Museum archives; photographs by Bernard Ente and selected Seaport Magazine photographers; Brouwer collection; noted maritime artists such as Naima Rauam. |
Anthology by Terry Walton
Harbor Voices celebrates New York's working harbor within lively recent memory - the people, places and vessels that make the city work. It includes behind the scenes stories of tug skippers, little-known islands, arch-windowed waterfront buildings, and more as interconnections to earlier times.
Contents include selections from HarborGuide, South Street Reporter, Seaport Magazine, Sea History Magazine - as well as lively new portraits of people and places illuminating the harbor's vitality today and its role in our everyday lives.
Published by National Maritime Historical Society's Sea History Press, working cooperatively with the Working Harbor Committee. Authors include Terry Walton - vice chair of the Working Harbor Committee, a founder of South Street Seaport Museum and founding editor of Seaport Magazine - as well as ship historian Norman Brouwer, tug skipper Geo Matteson, South Street founder Peter Stanford, Working Harbor director John Doswell, and maritime editor Richard Stepler.
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Soft cover, beautiful illustrations, 24 pages.
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by Peter Stanford
Sea History Press is honored to premiere the booklet, John Stobart and the Ships of South Street. Featured within the booklet are John Stobart's evocative paintings of ships sailing out of New York's South Street. John Stobart's essay, "A Fair Tide in South Street," provides his personal account of how the ships and people of the South Street Seaport inspired him to create his paintings: canvases that depict the ships that built a city from the sea.
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Other Sea History Press Publications:
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- The Skipper and the Eagle - Gordon McGowan
- The Ships That Brought Us So Far - Peter Stanford
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