history. Museums and other institutions that focus on Great Lakes history are relatively new in comparison to their East and West Coast counterparts , and are only beginning to define their role in the greater scheme of North American maritime history and preservation. Episodes like the discovery of the vessels Alvin Clark and Hamilton give us fleeting national attention so that we can present our case of regional importance. This book offers both the trained and amateur historian, from all regions , the opportunity to learn more about the significance of Great Lakes maritime history. Our "Inland Seas" have much to contribute to historic dialogue. DAVID PAMPERIN
Mr. Pamperin is Director of the Manitowoc Maritime Museum , founded in 1969, which focuses on the maritime history of the Upper Great Lakes. Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome, intro. Christopher Matthew and Benny Green (Pavilion Books, 196 Shaftesbury Ave. , London WC2H 8JL, UK, 1982 , 192pp, illus , £12 .50; Merrimack Books, 190 Merrimack St. , Lawrence MA 01843, USA $22. 95). This large format book, based on the original edition of 1889, contains not only the original text and period sketches by A. Fredericks, but in addition is profusely illustrated with maps , photographs, prints and cartoons of the period , together with careful explanations of the many abstruse references which make this comic classic a mirror held up to the quaint ways of our late Victorian forebears. The book, in its day, made Jerome's fame as a writer, and the doings of his three amateur oarsmen on their journey up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford have achieved a universal immortality, being translated into two dozen languages including Afrikaans, Sinhalese and Serbo-Croat-and , in a supreme compliment , cited in a Soviet manual to demonstrate the " ridiculous inefficiency" of capitalist railways! A "must" for all who mess about in boats , and a tonic even for those who don't.
comprise as great a variety of rig and size as dogs, but whereas even a small child instinctively recognizes chihuahuas and St. Bernards as dogs, sailors have heated arguments as to whether some vessels are schooners or not. The chapter on schooner-brigantines is particularly interesting and informative in this respect. There is a chapter on schooner yachts, strictly confined to traditional types (so avoiding modern Bermudan, staysail , trysail, cat and wishbone schooners, which is OK with this reviewer) . Other chapters cover such subjects as early Dutch schooners, American Colonial schooners, Baltimore clippers, clipper schooners, British and European schooners of the Victorian era , multimasted schooners, pilot boats, fishing schooners, "exotic" schooners, etc. Lovely illustrations complement McGregor's rich and rewardingly detailed text. ERIK C. ABRANSON
Mr. Abranson is Hon . Chairman Mariner 's International and editor their admirable newsletter Notices Mariners, from which this review abstracted.
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