Alone at sea: Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623-1939.

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Morris, John N. Alone at sea: Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623-1939. Beverly, Mass: Commonwealth Editions, 2010, 448pp., very good dust-jacket but with small tears at corners and some light wear, very good large hardcover but right foredge scuffed, one page dog-eared, lightly used. SIGNED on title page simply John N. Morris. CONTENTS: book 1: Climb to greatness (1623-1869) - A time before the dorymen - A new future? - The arrival of the mackerel - Period of expansion - The mackerel prosperity of the 1850s - Civil War - Dory fishing comes to Gloucester - To be a dory fisherman - book 2: The time of the master mariners (1870-1899) - Reciprocity and the Bay - Disaster on the Banks - Immigrant fishermen come to Gloucester - A scarcity of fish - Fishing for halibut off Iceland - Gloucester's move into the fresh-haddock fishery - book 3: A time of transition (1900-1910) - Stabilization of the fleet and the coming of the auxiliaries - An end of innocence - The changing fleet and the changing Gloucester fisheries - Gloucester's thriving "fresh-fish" fleet - book 4: The war years (1911-1919) - Cheap, duty-free fish enter Gloucester - Gloucester on the verge of war - The world changes : war comes to Europe - 1915 : an altered landscape - 1916 : the lull before the storm - Winds of war in early 1917 - 1918 : the war comes to America - 1919 : an uncertain transition - book 5: "In a breeze-of-wind" (1920-1939) - Economic decline and the first of the international fishermen's races : Mayflower versus Delawana - The coming of the racing fishermen : Mayflower and Bluenose - 1922 : "The worst has passed" and the races go on : Puritan and Henry Ford - 1923 : yet Another great Gloucester racing schooner, "Piney's" Columbia - The fisheries in the mid- to late-1920s, beginning with the 1924 turnaround - The Great Depression - The mackerel fishery in the Depression - The halibut fishery in the Depression - The end of an era - Epilogue - Appendix A: Glossary of terms - Appendix B: Fish landings - Appendix C: The Gloucester fleet, vessels lost, men lost at sea. ISBN 9780981943077. N° de ref. del artículo 89658

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