Patriarch Of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life And Ships Of Gardiner G. Deering

摘要

Kenneth R. Martin's Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding is a fine example of popular maritime history: a story well-told, insightful details that support bold ideas, and copious illustrations that bring the story to life. Informed without being dull, Martin's treatment of Gardiner S. Deering of Bath, Maine, and the ships he and his partners and family built gives us a glimpse of what the wooden shipbuilding and operating businesses were like in the declining decades of commercial sailing vessels. Martin's own credentials for writing such a work are impressive: he is a former history professor who has authored or co-authored numerous books onrnNew England's maritime past.