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Fast and Able

Gordon Thomas

出版	Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2002-06
主題	Technology & Engineering / Fisheries & AquacultureTransportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
ISBN	188983341X9781889833415
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XE2-OAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"As a boy, Gordon W. Thomas climbed the rigging of schooners tied up at Gloucester wharves and gazed over the masts out to sea, where he yearned to go. He stood behind the wheel of a vessel and let his imagination take sail. But his father, Capt. Jeffrey Thomas, skipper of the Adventure, would not let him go to sea. The sea was too dangerous, he said. There were enough Thomases at sea. So Gordon Thomas stayed onshore and became a walking encyclopedia of Gloucester schooners. In 1952, he published the first edition of Fast and Able under the title Builders of Gloucester's Prosperity. This fiftieth-anniversary edition includes histories of schooners not collected in previous editions. It also features breath-catching images from the Gordon W. Thomas Collection of schooner photographs now owned by the Cape Ann Historical Association." --From cover.