Steamboats Yesterday on Casco Bay: Steamboat Era in Maine's Calendar Island Region - Hardcover

Captain William Frappier

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550460862 ISBN 13: 9781550460865

Publisher: Stoddart/The Boston Mills Press, 1993

Synopsis

Local history. Book near fine and clean, inside and out, pages have large ripples. Dust jacket fine and clean. Large book, addtional shipping charges apply to international orders.

About this title

About the Author:

Cpt. William Frappier

Review:

". . . This 196-page volume includes more than 200 photographs and a 17-by-22-inch pull-out chart of all the routes discussed in the book is included for reference.

. . . Steamboat Yesterdays chronicles tragedies as well as triumphs and the decline as well as the success of companies. The loss of the Merryconeag in 1918 dealt a devastating blow to the merged Casco Bay & Harpswell Lines, (when this steamer) caught fire and burned at the wharf at Orr's Island. The author's powerful description draws the reader into the drama of the evening. (Fireman) Ralph Bailey, Sr.'s account of the disaster is an example of the way in which the text is enhanced by the personal recollections of some of the men who sailed on the steamers and operated the steamboat companies. . . . William Frappier has nearly completed Volume 2 of his study of steamboats on Casco Bay. Until it is published I will continue to read and re-read our library's copy of Volume 1 - unless Santa leaves a copy under my tree! May we all be so lucky!" -- Writer and historian, Donna Miller Damon, Inter Island News - The Island Institute

"A fascinating and lavishly illustrated account of steam transportation on the bay until just after the First World War, published by a Canadian house, the Boston Mills Press. In between the debut of the Kennebec and the present was an era no one will see the likes of again.

Frappier documents the first 100 years of steamboats on the bay in no-nonsense but often graceful prose . . . recounting the rise and fall of the boats, their crews and the companies that launched them." -- The York, Me., Weekly

"The first century of steamboating on Casco Bay comes alive in the first comprehensive and definitive account of the steamboat era in the Calendar Islands region. Captain Frappier's work is a tribute to the steamers and the people of the islands, the lifeblood of Casco Bay." -- The Rhumb Line -- Maine Maritime Museum

"The most complete and accurate work on the Casco Bay steamer lines." -- The Coastal Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Stoddart/The Boston Mills Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1550460862
• ISBN 13: 9781550460865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196