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Wooden ship : the art, history, and revival of wooden boatbuilding / Peter H. Spectre and David Larkin.

Title: Wooden ship : the art, history, and revival of wooden boatbuilding / Peter H. Spectre and David Larkin.
Author: Spectre, Peter H.
Publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

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Additional Authors

Larkin, David, 1936-

Description

272 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 31 cm.

Summary

Covers the art of wooden shipbuilding from the canoe to the pleasure craft of modern times.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Note

"A David Larkin book."

Contents

Introduction -- Simple craft -- The Vikings -- Ocean sailers -- The building of the Susan Constant -- Colonization and trade -- The VASA story -- Ships of war -- Ships of work -- Schooners and whalers -- Engine power -- Recreational sailing -- Motor boats -- The art of the craft.

ISBN

0395566924

LCCN

^^^91012341^

OCLC

23355945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library