Alone at sea Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623 - 1939
book 1: Climb to greatness (1623-1869) -- A time before the dorymen -- A new future? -- The arrival of the mackerel -- Period of expansion -- The mackerel prosperity of the 1850s -- Civil War -- Dory fishing comes to Gloucester -- To be a dory fisherman -- book 2: The time of the master mariners (18...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Beverly, Mass.
Commonwealth Editions
2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | book 1: Climb to greatness (1623-1869) -- A time before the dorymen -- A new future? -- The arrival of the mackerel -- Period of expansion -- The mackerel prosperity of the 1850s -- Civil War -- Dory fishing comes to Gloucester -- To be a dory fisherman -- book 2: The time of the master mariners (1870-1899) -- Reciprocity and the Bay -- Disaster on the Banks -- Immigrant fishermen come to Gloucester -- A scarcity of fish -- Fishing for halibut off Iceland -- Gloucester's move into the fresh-haddock fishery -- book 3: A time of transition (1900-1910) -- Stabilization of the fleet and the coming of the auxiliaries -- An end of innocence -- The changing fleet and the changing Gloucester fisheries -- Gloucester's thriving "fresh-fish" fleet -- book 4: The war years (1911-1919) -- Cheap, duty-free fish enter Gloucester -- Gloucester on the verge of war -- The world changes : war comes to Europe -- 1915 : an altered landscape -- 1916 : the lull before the storm -- Winds of war in early 1917 -- 1918 : the war comes to America -- 1919 : an uncertain transition -- book 5: "In a breeze-of-wind" (1920-1939) -- Economic decline and the first of the international fishermen's races : Mayflower versus Delawana -- The coming of the racing fishermen : Mayflower and Bluenose -- 1922 : "The worst has passed" and the races go on : Puritan and Henry Ford -- 1923 : yet Another great Gloucester racing schooner, "Piney's" Columbia -- The fisheries in the mid- to late-1920s, beginning with the 1924 turnaround -- The Great Depression -- The mackerel fishery in the Depression -- The halibut fishery in the Depression -- The end of an era -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Glossary of terms -- Appendix B: Fish landings -- Appendix C: The Gloucester fleet, vessels lost, men lost at sea. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 448 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780981943077 978-0-9819430-7-7 |