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··Ah. Li110/e11mville." by John Noble, lithograph. 15 1/i " x 2 JI /1 "
For Sale! --a wide variety of framed prints from a personal collection, by marine art masters: John Taylor Arms -American Arthur Briscoe - English D. Y. Cameron - Scottish Mel Hunter - American William L Wyllie - English George C. Wales - American
Also available, an extensive collection of John Noble lithographs, including Downtown Trilogy (three New York Harbor prints), Ah Linoleumville, Moratara Geneva, Henry Steers, Studio Wreck, and others. Call or write for price list: Richard Masterson , 115 Willow St., E. Brunswick, NJ 08816. (908) 254-2623 You are cordially invited to participate in "A Salute to History ," Military and Historical Art Show and Sale, May 13-23, 1993, in San Antonio, Texas , "Home of the Alamo. " For details write or call:
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REVIEWS tion-the charting of Puget Sound and circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in 1792, the laborious mapping of the numerous bays, inlets and islands of the central coast the following year and a final working down from Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound to Port Conclusion in 1794. In the end, over I 0,000 miles of coastline were charted in the greatest detail-most of it from small boats that left the ships for weeks on end. The particular delight of this book is that almost every page includes at least one illustration-a drawing by one of the talented midshipmen who served as Vancouver's artist, an engraved chart from the 1798 Atlas or one of photographer Gary Fiegehen 's stunning photographs of the coast especially commissioned for this book. The photographs are linked into the text through quotations from Vancouver's journal. Another strength of the book is that the native peoples are woven into the story throughout. Fisher is at pains to point out that the Indians had inhabited the region for ten thousand years and had long ago established a highly organized, culturally and technologically sophisticated society. He provides a sensitive analysis of their fleeting contact with Vancouver and his men. Fisher and his photographer have provided a clear, concise and fast-paced narrative, a real feel for the nature of the coast and a sense of Vancouver's amazing achievement; for the more serious student this is an ideal appetizer for Kaye Lamb's masterful study of the voyage and the edition of the journal published by the Hakluyt Society in 1984. ROBIN INGLIS
Mr. Inglis is Director of the North Vancouver Muse um and Archives and the editor of a series of essays, Spain and the North Pacific Coast, published this year by the Vancouver Maritime Museum. A Ship to Remember: The Maine and the Spanish-American War, by Michael Blow (William Morrow & Co., 1992, 496pp, maps, photos, bib, index; $27 .50hb) With the centennial of the SpanishAmerican War approaching, general histories and specialized studies of the war will appear with increasing frequency. Michael Blow has weighed in with this fine history of the USS Maine and the Spanish-American War. Blow weaves two stories into a general narrative of the war. First he describes the deployment and destruction of the secSEA HISTORY 63, AUTUMN 1992