Schooner |
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| Author:
| Collins, Pat Lowery |
| Illustrator:
| Collins, Pat Lowery |
| ISBN: | 978-1-889833-35-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2003 |
| Publisher: | Applewood Books
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| Imprint: | Commonwealth Editions |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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The building of the schooner Thomas E. Lannon as seen through the eyes of a boy, this charming children's book chronicles the extraordinary construction of a great sailing vessel. In the late 1990s, the legendary shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts, buzzed as they had a century before: Under the guiding hand of Harold Burnham, whose family has crafted boats in Essex for generations, the schooner Thomas E. Lannon was built. It was patterned after the nineteenth-century vessel Nokomis, one...
More DescriptionThe building of the schooner Thomas E. Lannon as seen through the eyes of a boy, this charming children's book chronicles the extraordinary construction of a great sailing vessel. In the late 1990s, the legendary shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts, buzzed as they had a century before: Under the guiding hand of Harold Burnham, whose family has crafted boats in Essex for generations, the schooner Thomas E. Lannon was built. It was patterned after the nineteenth-century vessel Nokomis, one of the last large engineless schooners to fish off the Grand Banks.