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  • The North River: Scenic Waterway of the South Shore

    de John Galluzzo ...
    Series series Brief History
    There is no one way to see the North River. Its characteristic meandering cuts a twenty-three-mile path through the South Shore to Massachusetts Bay. Flowing through six towns Pembroke, Hanover, Norwell, Scituate, Marshfield and Hanson the river has played a prominent, if not definitive, role in shaping the identity of the region.John Galluzzo, who leads cultural and natural history tours of the ... Leer más

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  • Massachusetts Aviation

    de Frederick R. Morin, John Galluzzo ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    Shortly after the Wright brothers took to the air, aviation fever gripped Massachusetts. The biggest names in the industry, including Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, and Claude Graham-White, among others, flew in for the first major air shows, further exciting the people of the Bay State about the potential of manned flight in the realms of military tactics, the expansion of commerce, and even ... Leer más

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  • Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank

    Disaster in New England's National Marine Sanctuary

    de Matthew Lawrence, Deborah Marx, John Galluzzo ...
    Series series Disaster
    Beneath the churning surface of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary rest the bones of shipwrecks and sailors alike. Massachusetts' ports connected its citizens to the world, and the number of merchant and fishing vessels grew alongside the nation's development. Hundreds of ships sank on the trade routes and fishing grounds between Cape Cod and Cape Ann. Their stories are waiting to be ... Leer más

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  • Dark Tide

    The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

    de Stephen Puleo ...
    Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-"Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!"A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled ... Leer más

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  • Ten Hours Until Dawn

    The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do

    de Michael J. Tougias ...
    In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker, having lost its radar, depth finder, and engine power in horrendous seas. Pilot boat Captain Frank Quirk was ... Leer más

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  • The Cape Cod Canal: Breaking Through the Bared and Bended Arm

    de J. North Conway ...
    The history of Cape Cod including the creation of the iconic New England landmark, The Cape Cod Canal. The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of graveyard of the Atlantic. J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod, from its discovery to its chowder, and of the man who managed to cut a path through it. ... Leer más

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  • PEZ

    From Austrian Invention to American Icon

    de Shawn Peterson ...
    The world's one-and-only PEZ historian dispenses fun facts on the candy's evolution from smoking substitute to childhood treat to pop culture collectible.PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed peppermint tablets marketed as an alternative to smoking. Upon arrival in the United States in 1952, PEZ ... Leer más

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  • The Clara Nevada

    Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage

    de Steven C. Levi ...
    The true story of a mysterious shipwreck during the Klondike gold rush.In early February 1898, witnesses reported a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska's Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm, taking passengers and priceless cargo with her.Was the explosion an accident—or a robbery gone wrong? Did Captain C.H. ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn

    Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York

    de Suleiman Osman ...
    Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom ... Leer más

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  • The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

    The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story

    de Theresa Mitchell Barbo, W. Russell Webster, John "Jack" Downey ...
    A first-hand account and fascinating new details of the 1952 rescue of the SS Pendleton, the true story behind the film The Finest Hours.On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret. ... Leer más

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  • The Hartford Circus Fire

    Tragedy Under the Big Top

    de Michael Skidgell ...
    Through firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors and a gripping collection of vintage photographs, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies. Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time

    de Douglas Whynott ...
    In a time when racing boats are mass-produced from synthetic materials, a dying breed of craftsman continues to build wooden sailboats of astonishing beauty. Boatbuilding is an ancient art, and Joel White was a master. Son of the legendary writer E.B. White, he was raised around boats and his designs were as sublime and graceful as his father's prose. At a boatyard in Maine, White and his closely ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD