Download or read book The Boy Who Saved a Cape Cod Town written by Admont Gulick Clark and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boy Who Saved a Cape Cod Town presents fourteen swashbuckling tales from Cape Cod history--all highly dramatic and all completely true. Starting with English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold's attempt to found a colony on Cuttyhunk Island in 1602, the book concludes with the story of the sinking of the huge liner Stockholm in 1958, which Cape Cod aerial photographer, Bill Quinn, was the first to report on TV. The stories appeal especially to young people since many characters are young, including the brave boy who saved a Cape Cod town during the War of 1812. Brilliantly illustrated by 25 black-and-white pictures by the talented artist Dick Fraser, Admont Clark's selections are certain to enrich anyone's understanding of the history of life on this precious peninsula. A favorite story is that in which two little girls aboard ship ride in a cart made for them by the crew and pulled by a pig, the pig later becoming their Sunday dinner.
Download or read book The Life Savers of Cape Cod written by John Wilfred Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Puzzling Pair of Cape Cod Pirates written by Admont Gulick Clark and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to the author's previous work, The Boy Who Saved a Cape Cod Town, contains nineteen stories involving Cape Codders from four centuries. The book starts with "A Battle at Stage Harbor," which explores how Cape Cod became part of New England rather than "New France." It finishes with "The Adventures of Captain Baxter," about the legendary exploits of a West Dennis captain. An especially moving story is "Hannah Rebecca Burgess, Navigator," a tragic tale of love and adventure on the high seas. After the untimely death of her husband, a ship captain, young Hannah Burgess is forced to navigate a clipper ship full of cargo back to port-a feat virtually unheard-of for a woman of her era. These stories illustrate the kind of character and determination that has made Cape Cod great. Included are tales about the invention of commercial salt-making from sea water, the initiation of the banana trade, and Cape Codders sailing the world.
Download or read book Cape Cod Noir Akashic Noir written by David L. Ulin and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malice and mayhem simmer beneath the surface of one of America's favorite vacation areas. “Youthful alienation and despair dominate the 13 stories in Akashic’s noir volume devoted to Cape Cod. [It] will satisfy those with a hankering for a taste of the dark side.” —Publishers Weekly “David L. Ulin has put together a malicious collection of short stories that will stay with you long after you return home safe.” —The Cult: The Official Chuck Palahniuk Website Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: William Hastings, Elyssa East, Dana Cameron, Paul Tremblay, Adam Mansbach, Seth Greenland, Lizzie Skurnick, David L. Ulin, Kaylie Jones, Fred G. Leebron, Ben Greenman, Dave Zeltserman, and Jedediah Berry. From the introduction by David L. Ulin: “Here, we see the inverse of the Cape Cod stereotype, with its sailboats and its presidents. Here, we see the flip side of the Kennedys, of all those preppies in docksiders eating steamers, of the whale watchers and bicycles and kites. Here, we see the Cape beneath the surface, the Cape after the summer people have gone home. It doesn’t make the other Cape any less real, but it does suggest a symbiosis, in which our sense of the place can’t help but become more complicated, less about vacation living than something more nuanced and profound . . . "For me, Cape Cod is a repository of memory: forty summers in the same house will do that to you. But it is also a landscape of hidden tensions, which rise up when we least anticipate. In part, this has to do with social aspiration, which is one of the things that brought my family, like many others, to the Cape. In part, it has to do with social division, which has been a factor since at least the end of the nineteenth century, when then summer trade began. There are lines here, lines that get crossed and lines that never get crossed, the kinds of lines that form the web of noir. Call it what you want—summer and smoke is how I think of it—but that’s the Cape Cod at the center of this book.“
Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Cape Cod to Canada The Wanderings of a Wash A Shore written by Tom Dirsa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Tom Dirsa from his beginnings on Cape Cod to his time in Alberta, Canada.
Download or read book Cape Cod Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Cape Cod written by Frederick John Pratson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rich history and lively, artsy flair, the Cape has something for everyone. If you don't find what you're looking for, you're not looking in this book first.
Download or read book A Place Apart A Cape Cod Reader written by Robert Finch and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; and so much more. The collection includes famous passages by and about such writers as Melville, Thoreau, Helen Keller, Edmund Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.
Download or read book Disaster Off Martha s Vineyard written by Thomas Dresser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rocky coast and treacherous shoals, shipwrecks were a common occurrence in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Few claimed as many lives as the City of Columbus. The night was clear and the route familiar for Captain Schuyler Wright and his experienced crew as they sailed a ship equipped with the latest technology. Yet with all this, the City of Columbus went down with 103 souls. Over a century later, Eric Takakjian and the Quest Marine Services team located the wreckage of the City of Columbus on the north ledge of the Devil's Bridge, off the southern tip of Gay Head. Historian Thomas Dresser takes us into the icy waters of the Atlantic as he recounts the terrible chain of events that led to disaster on that fateful night.
Download or read book The Cape Cod Blue written by David Osborn and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chase Morse and his brother, Haydn, heirs to an auction-house empire, split their time between Manhattan and The Moorings, the idyllic family estate on Nantucket, but when a body turns up at The Moorings and a priceless painting goes missing from inside the tight-security vault at the auction house, family secrets get harder to keep. As Gabrielle, a French journalist sent to write features on the glittering New York art world, becomes entangled with the family, the police start digging, and the stakes are high—eighty million dollars, pilfered and then lost in risky Russian investments. Can an entitled one-percenter with expansive resources, and enlisting the help of a wily art forger, outsmart the art cops and the old guard within the company? The glittering, exalted world of art auctioning hides love, hate, and murder in a wealthy and socially prominent family when the forgery of an anonymous Cape Cod painting threatens to destroy them all.
Download or read book Ford News written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life Saving Service for the Fiscal Year Ending written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
