AN ENLIGHTENING, EXPANDED VIEW OF AMERICAN MARITIME HISTORY
From Native Americans with birch bark canoes and inventive colonists who
took fishing shallops and laid decks over them for coastal trading to
the rise of the automated mass carrier and ever-bigger passenger cruise
ships, this book tells the story of four hundred years of America's
maritime history. It is filled with powerful and evocative images of
ships such as the Mayflower, Savannah, Flying Cloud, Alabama, Sea-Land
McLean, and Exxon Valdez; ports, including Boston, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Salem, Buffalo, and
Seattle; and people such as Joseph Peabody, Robert Fulton, Mark Twain,
Donald McKay, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, and Malcom McLean.
The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both
oceanic shipping and domestic shipping along America's coasts and inland
waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of
the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American
maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history.
Includes 16 color pages of marine paintings by John Stobart.
This is part of a two-book project created by the American Maritime
History Project, Inc., an independent enterprise with an office at the
United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York.
