Point-all bound together in a sensitive descriptive text. " Our purpose ," says Richard Halverson, President of Sleepy Hollow Restorations , which publishes the book , ''is to inspire people to explore the valley firsthand ." PETER STANFORD The New York Harbor Book, Francis J. Duffy and William H. Miller (TBW Books, Falmouth , ME, 1986 , 208pp , illus, $17.95pb) . This thoroughly enjoyable book is an overview of the sprawling waterfront of New York Harbor and the innumerable communities of work and purpose that throng its shores in Brooklyn , Manhattan, the Jerseyside towns of the Hudson, and even the lesser known islands such as Hoffman and Swinburne islands and Execution Rock. Authors Duffy and Miller offer a pageant of the ships and people that built, and today sustain, New York Harbor as a gateway to the world. They examine the still active, though often overlooked, fisheries industry, the past grandeur of the ships that lined Luxury Liner Row, the conversion of piers to offices and apartments as part of the development of the Jersey waterfront , and the municipal waterborne services such as fireboats and policeboats. However, the book is not without its problems. Mr. Miller has contributed three chapters which treat the subject of ocean liners in more detail than is necessary to the immediate purpose of the book . The arrangement of the material is neither geographical, chronological nor by trade or industry . And there are no maps of the physical area describedeven for a seasoned harbor watcher it is hard to tell all the players written about here without a scorecard. LINCOLN PAINE Voyage: The First Galway Hooker to America, 1986, Paddy Barry (Gill and MacMillan, Goldenbridge , Dublin 8, 157pp , illus, ÂŁ6 .95pb). Voyage is an account of a crossing from Ireland to the US at the invitation of Operation Sail 1986. Reading Voyage leaves one with the impression that an evening has been spent facing Paddy Barry across a table in a Dublin Pub and hearing him spin a great yarn. A great yarn it is of ocean voyaging in a coastal vessel; a yarn about poteen, wet bunks and a wave that lay the vessel on her side and swept her hull, her mast and sails fully submerged. The vessel is the seventy-six-year-old Galway hooker, Saint Patrick. A stout little class of work boat that were the freighters of Ireland for the past few cenSEA HISTORY, SPRING 1987
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