Download or read book Cape Cod Masters of the Seas written by Joan Paine and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipmasters of Cape Cod written by Henry Crocker Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OLD CAPE COD THE LAND THE MEN THE SEA written by MARY ROGERS BANGS and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Cod had its Age of Romance in a half-century best placed, perhaps, in the years between 1790 and 1840. Then certainly the picture of it was charming: a picture unblemished by the paper-box architecture of a later period, or the alien hotels, the villas, bungalows, and portable-houses of to-day. Then roads, with no necessity laid upon them to be the servants of speed, were honest native sand, and, gleaming like yellow ribbons across hills and meadows, linked farm to farm and went trailing on to the next township where houses nestled behind their lilacs in a sheltered hollow, or stood four-square on the village street. As if by instinct, the early settlers from Saugus and Scituate and Plymouth, accustomed as their youth had been to the harmonies of Old England, hit upon a style of building best suited to the genius of the country. And if, consciously, they only planned for comfort and used the materials at hand, the result, inevitably, bears the test of fitness to environment. Their low slant-roof wooden houses were set with backs to the north wind and a singularly wide-awake[Pg 2] aspect to the south. The watershed of the roof sometimes ran with an equal slope to the eaves of the ground floor; but as frequently, yielding barely room for pantry and storeroom at the north, it lifted in front to a second story. And in either case the “upper chambers,” with irregular ceilings and windows looking to the sunrise and sunset, were packed tautly into the apex of the roof. Ornament centred in the front door—a symbol, one might think, of the determination to preserve, in the enforced privations of pioneer life, the gentle ceremonials of their past; and however small or remote, there is not such a house to be recalled that does not thus offer its dignified best for the occasions of hospitality. The doors are often beautiful in themselves: their panels of true proportions framed in delicately moulded pilasters with a line of glazing to light the tiny hall; frequently a pediment above protects the whole from the dripping of eaves. And before paint was used to mask the wood, the whole structure, played upon by sun and storm, wore to a tone of silver-gray that made a house as familiar to the soil as a lichen-covered rock. The square Georgian mansions came later, with the prosperity of reviving trade after the Revolution. They were built to a smaller scale than those of Newburyport or Salem or Portsmouth; and the Cape Cod aristocrat seems to have been content with two stories to live in and a vast garret above to store superfluous treasure. There was not a jarring note in the scene; and the old houses, set in neighborly fashion on the village street or approached by a winding cart-track “across the fields,”[Pg 3] with garden and orchard merging into pasture, suit to perfection the gentle undulating configuration of the land, which is never level, but swells into uplands that recall the memory of Scotch moors or some denuded English “Forest,” and sinks away into meadow, or marsh, or hollows overflowing with the warm perfumes of blossomy growth...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book Old Cape Cod written by Mary Rogers Bangs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Brewster Ship Masters written by Joseph Henry Sears and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legends Lore of Cape Cod written by Robin Smith-Johnson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived. Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princess Scargo are as familiar as tales of pirates and explorers, including "Black Sam" Bellamy and Donald Baxter Macmillan. Felines often blocked "Cat's Alley" in pursuit of food from fishermen's boats. The remnants of Billingsgate Island can be seen at low tide, and visits from Jenny Lind and Helen Keller contrast with the mysterious stories of the "Lady of the Dunes" and New England's Dark Day. Author Robin Smith-Johnson shares historic tales of shipwrecks, murders, hauntings and more from the Cape.
Download or read book Cape Cod written by William Martin and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Engrossing...entertaining...the perfect book to take to the beach." - Boston Herald Two families, both carried by the Mayflower across stormy seas... both destined to generations of proud leadership, shameful intrigue, and passion for the sandy crest of land that became their heritage... This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a Bigelow heir and the windswept coast he loves. It is a struggle that will take him deep into the past, to a centuries-old feud that never died..And on a dangerous quest for a priceless relic of American history that has lain hidden in the Cape for over two hundred years.
Download or read book Cape Cod Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Master Mate and Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chatham Sea Captains in the Age of Sail written by Joseph A. Nickerson Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chatham Sea Captains in the Age of Sail chronicles the lives and adventures of twenty-five men who traveled the seas from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. These were extraordinary menmasters of navigation who charted paths from the Cape to the Far East with their regal clipper ships; deep-sea fishermen whose fearless spirit drove them to the Grand Banks and Newfoundland in the quest for their catch; and coastal captains who skirted Americas eastern seaboard in pursuit of trade. Spurred on by the Industrial Revolutions demands, these mariners continued their pelagic exploration while pirates, privateers and Confederate raiders tested their mettle. The sea was both foe and ally. To meet the foe was the challenge; to sail her waters and return home as true masters was the force that drove these men to excellence.
Download or read book Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 The Winter of 1812 1813 Campaign of 1813 on the lake frontier to the Battle of Lake Erie The Campaign of 1813 on the lakes and Northern frontier The Campaign of 1813 on the lakes and Northern Frontier after the Battle of Lake Erie Seaboard maritime operations 1813 Maritime operations external to the waters of the United States 1813 1814 The Niagara Campaign and events on the Great Lakes in 1814 Seaboard operations in 1814 Lake Champlain and New Orleans The peace negotiations written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 written by A. T. Mahan and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1968 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Scientific Research for Cape Cod National Seashore written by Patricia G. Claxon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Other Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston written by State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
