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Wooden ship : the art, history, and revival of wooden boatbuilding

Title
Wooden ship : the art, history, and revival of wooden boatbuilding / Peter H. Spectre and David Larkin ; principal photography by Paul Rocheleau, chief contributing photographers Fred Hoogervorst, Benjamin Mendlowitz, Allan Weitz.
Author
Spectre, Peter H.
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Larkin, David, 1936-
  • Rocheleau, Paul.
Description
272 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm
Summary
Covers the art of wooden shipbuilding from the canoe to the pleasure craft of modern times.
Subject
  • Ships, Wooden > History
  • Naval architecture > History
  • Shipbuilding > History
  • Naval architecture
  • Shipbuilding
  • Ships, Wooden
  • Bildband
  • Holz
  • Schiffbau
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
  • 9780395566923
LCCN
91012341
OCLC
  • ocm23355945
  • 23355945
  • SCSB-9562648
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library