Snug Harbor : or, The Champlain mechanics

Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897, Dillingham, Charles Theodore, b. 1842, publisher, LeBlanc, Edward T. donor, Lee and Shepard, publisher · 1884 · Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : Charles T. Dillingham · 5 pictures

Volume in Oliver Optic's Boat-Builder Series, a juvenile novel about young mechanics, boatbuilding and sailing on Lake Champlain, issued in 1884 by Lee and Shepard of Boston with Charles T. Dillingham in New York. Wood-engraved plates show sloops heeling under full sail with crews on the windward rail, close rigging and cockpit detail, and a boy treed by a hound, plus a series title page of draped banners and harbor vignettes useful for nautical linework and lettering frames.

Young men · Conduct of life · Boatbuilding · Sailing · Trade schools · Manual training · Boats and boating · Seafaring life · Ship captains

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