Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Book Details
| Title: | Wooden Ships and Iron Men | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1924 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Hodder and Stoughton | ||||||||
| Tags: | Canada, Canadiana, history, non-fiction, sailing | ||||||||
| Description: | A history of the ship making business in the Canadian Maritimes between 1840-1890. Includes stories of the ships and the men who sailed them. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 352 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 283  |
Author Bio for Wallace, Frederick William
Frederick William Wallace was born on December 11, 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland and died on July 15, 1958 in Montreal, Canada. He was a journalist, photographer, historian and novelist of the Canadian fishing industry. He published his first novel Blue Water in 1907 and commanded a Q-ship, an armed merchantman used to hunt U-boats, in World War I. After the war, he became the editor of the monthly journal Canadian Fisherman for forty years. A historian of the Canadian sailing era he published three authoritative books on the subject: Wooden Ships and Iron Men in 1924, In the Wake of the Windships in 1927, and Record of Canadian Shipping in 1929.
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