Download or read book Scrimshaw and Provenance written by Stuart M. Frank and published by Mystic Seaport Museum. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third installment in the Scrimshaw Artists series, Scrimshaw and Provenance, contains more than 400 biographical sketches of the artists who made scrimshaw in the Age of Sail, ranging from common sailors and humble ship's carpenters to celebrity sea captains and even Peter the Great--meticulously researched and authoritatively and colorfully narrated by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, based on the scrimshaw, primary documents, and archival records of museums, libraries, auction houses, and private collections worldwide.

Download or read book More Scrimshaw Artists written by Stuart M. Frank and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever book of its kind, a major resource for scholars, curators, maritime enthusiasts, and collectors. It presents 500 carefully documented biographical sketches of the men and women in the American and foreign whale fisheries, and in the naval and merchant services, who produced scrimshaw at sea and ashore in the great age of sail from circa 1625 to 1930

Download or read book Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists written by Stuart M. Frank and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is certain to have a major and lasting impact on both the study and the collecting of scrimshaw, that ever-popular folk art of whalemen. In his ground-breaking work, Dr. Frank, Director of the Kendall Whaling Museum, has cataloged every known and recorded scrimshaw artist active through the early twentieth century. His persistent search has unearthed an immense amount of significant, often fascinating, information on these little-known artisans. This book is indispensable to the collector, curator, and scholar of maritime and folk art. The North American Society for Oceanic History named A Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists the best maritime reference book published in 1992.

Download or read book Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists written by Stuart M. Frank and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book More Scrimshaw Artists written by Stuart M. Frank and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplementing the Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists, an award-winning book published by Mystic Seaport in 1991, More Scrimshaw Artists brings maritime and whaling historians, librarians and curators, scrimshaw collectors, and folk-art enthusiasts a new study of 139 practitioners of the whaleman's unique art form, most of them scrimshanders not discussed in the Dictionary, and including Alaskan native artists who produced notable

Download or read book Ingenious Contrivances Curiously Carved written by Stuart M. Frank and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Bedford whaling fleet was the most numerous and arranging in the world, setting off on voyages that often lasted for years and extended as far as the Antarctic and Siberia. This title features over 700 detailed photos from the world's finest collection of scrimshaw, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Download or read book Scrimshaw History written by Robert L. Mount and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art of Scrimshaw written by Charles R. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary Scrimshaw written by Eva Halat and published by Verlag Angelika Hörnig. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Galore written by Michael Crummey and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date. An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. Propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations, Galore is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature.

Download or read book A History of Sailing in 100 Objects written by Barry Pickthall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft? Who worked out how to measure distance or plot a course at sea? Or why the humble lemon rose to such prominence in the diets of sailors? Taking one hundred objects that have been pivotal in the development of sailing and sailing boats, the book provides a fascinating insight into the history of sailing. From the earliest small boats, through magnificent Viking warships, to the technology that powers some of the most sophisticated modern yachts, the book also covers key developments such as keeps and navigational aids such as the astrolabe, sextant and compass. Other more apparently esoteric objects from all around the world are also included, including the importance of citrus fruit in the prevention of scurvy, scrimshaw made from whalebone and the meaning of sailor's tattoos. Beautifully illustrated with lively and insightful text, it's a perfect gift for the real or armchair sailor, the book gives an alternative insight into how and why we sail the way we do today.

Download or read book A Treasury of American Scrimshaw written by Michael McManus and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scrimshaw on Nantucket written by Stuart Frank and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book More Scrimshaw Artists written by Stuart M. Frank and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scrimshaw and Its Importance as an American Folk Art written by Joseph Frederick Caron and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mocha Dick The Legend and Fury written by Brian Heinz and published by Creative Editions. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tour de force of design, story and illustration." - Kirkus Starred Review In 1839, Herman Melville was among the New Yorkers who thrilled to a magazine account of a white sperm whale's attacks on whaling ships. That whale was named Mocha Dick, but 12 years later, he would be immortalized in fiction as Moby-Dick. Believed to have been active from 1810 to 1859, Mocha Dick was infamous for the ferocity of his retaliations against those who attempted to capture him. From the first recorded encounter near the South American island of Mocha till the fatal harpoon blow, Mocha Dick was a legend in his own time. In language befitting a sea lore, author Brain Heinz describes characteristic episodes of the great whale's life, as illustrator Randall Enos animates the tale in a textured style evocative of scrimshaw.