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Tales from the Great Lakes: Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner Days"
C.h.j. Snider
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Description for Tales from the Great Lakes: Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner Days"
Paperback.
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto’s The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider’s writings are those of Robert B. ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd Canada
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781550022346
SKU
V9781550022346
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About C.h.j. Snider
Robert B. Townsend was a long-time sailor and sailing enthusiast who, after forty years on Bay Street, and following a lifetime of active community involvement, retired to the beautiful Bay of Quinte. For many years an advocate of the preservation of the marine heritage of Ontario, he compiled a database of Snider's "Schooner Days" articles.
Reviews for Tales from the Great Lakes: Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner Days"
"The book is worth reading for many reasons, but principally because it brings a forgotten age to life, the age of the Great Lakes schooners."
John Melady
John Melady