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Charles William Tinkham
A photo retrospective of bygone Boston and Maine coastal scenes by a man with a true artist's eye. Soft cover, 166 pages, black-and-white photos . $17.95 plus $1.25 postage and handling
ON THE HAWSER
Steven Lang and Peter Spectre
A tugboat album that is every harbor watcher's dream. Close to 500 pages of fascinating and beautiful photographs of tugs doing what they do best. Hardcover, 522 pages, 245 black-and-white photos, biblio ., glossary, vessel index. $30.00 plus $2 postage and handling
BENEATH COLD WATERS
Fred Bavendam
"Excellent color photographs of marine animals found in New England waters" -Aqualog. Hardcover, 128 pages, 145 color photos, index. $18.95 plus $1.25 postage and handling
DREAMS OF NATURAL PLACES
Herbert Smith
A photographic record of the round-the-world voyage of the 65-foot schooner Appledore, in 1978--1980. Hardcover, 104 pages, 126 color photographs, map, and sail plan. $18. 95 plus $1.50 postage and handling
THE LOG OF THE SKIPPER'S WIFE
edited by James Balano
Using his mother's diaries as a base, the author presents an eyewitness account of life aboard one of the last of the Maine windjammers engaged in worldwide commerce. Balano family photographs. Softcover. $6.95 plus $1 postage and handling
WINDJAMMER WORLD
Dee Carstarphen
The camaraderie and thrill of life aboard a cruise schooner as seen from the cook' s point of view. Usable recipes, done in calligraphy, whimsical illustrations. Softcover, $4.25 plus $1 postage and handling
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us a picture of seamen who are impossibly careless about cracking up their vessels on reefs yet win a victory over the Spanish squadron when the chips were down that resembles something out of C.S. Forester's fiction. The treatment of both Spanish and English difficulties in colonial government is sympathetic yet honest. Mr. Earle's research into the Spanish archives has provided us with a vivid picture of the futile attempts of the Colonial Governors to get help from Spain and the absolutely squalid conditions that the unpaid (for years at a time) soldiers who were expected to defend the Spanish possessions lived in. His writing brings this kind of thing to life, and is the more interesting, for layman or historian, because it is so solidly based in available fact. ANDREW B ESHEER
Mr. Besheer, a student, sails in the crew of the skipjack Marnie Mister from the National Society 's pier in Brooklyn.
Romance of the Sea, (National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1981, 312 pp., illus ., $19.95). Every lover of the sea, seasoned sailor or occasional weekender, has logged happy hours sailing through the trade winds of fantasy at the helm of his favorite chair. Crossing the boundless unknown ocean with Columbus, battling the winds at the bottom of the world with Magellan and the Cape Horn clippers, taking broadsides at Trafalgar with Nelson, sacking Panama with Henry Morgan, promenading the deck of a great ocean liner with the Fords and the Astors . The National Geographic Society, with all the resources and experience that shapes its renowned magazine, has produced a chart to aid the armchair mariner to those distant shores. Abundantly illustrated, this book presents a broad and beautiful picture of the history of the sea, the men and the ships, from the hollowed-out log, to the ships of the line, to the floating palaces that are the ocean liners. National Geographic has managed to compact this long and eventful saga into 312 pages, with 275 illustrations, including 14 maps. Romance of the Sea plots a course through history that sea lovers will want to pass through again and again. This book is available through the National Geographic Society, undoubtedly helping to support the Society's magnificent works, and is offered at a very seaworthy price. CARL BROWN
Mr. B1rown, a New York playwright, serves as matte in various sailing craft. 44
SEA HISTORY, SUMMER 1982