BOOKS terested in the lore and legend of the sea, especially of the New England area, will find this book both interesting and informative. ANDREW BESHEER
Mr. Besheer is a crew member of the Chesapeake Bay skipjack Mamie A. Mister, sailing out of the National Society's East River pier. The Window to the Street, a mid-19th Century View of Cold Spring Harbor, by Harriet G. Valentine (Exposition Press, Smithtown NY, 1981, 150 pp., illus., $8.00). Helen Rogers was a bright, inquisitive and watchful observer of much that transpired in the whaling era of Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Her diary, which forms the core of this book, provides the reader with a rare and observant look into the social ways of her life, told with attention to detail and perceptiveness. We are in great need of such personal accounts to inform us of the setting in which maritime matters occurred. Helen Rogers was clearly an interesting and interested person and we are indebted to Harriet C. Valentine for opening the window she provided. MELVIN A. CONANT
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A Book of Sea Journeys, by Ludovic Kennedy (Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., New York NY, 1981, 395 pp., illus., $14.95). A collection of writings about the sea and voyaging by travellers, explorers, naval personalities, sailors in small boats on large oceans, it includes accounts of stylish times on liners, grim conditions of slave ships, naval incidents, immigrant packets, told by the likes of Kipling, Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Ann Davison, Churchill, Nicholas Monsaratt, Noel Coward, W,IH. Auden and Shackleton amongst othrers well-known and not-so wellknmwn. SEA HISTORY, WINTER 1982