The Shipping Days of Old Boothbay by George Wharton Rice

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1938. Boothbay Harbor. 1st Edition.

Until World War I the Boothbay area was a beehive of marine activity, making this a fascinating book for all those interested in the marine history of northern New England. To the many contemporary accounts gleaned from letters, maps and the like, Rice adds biographies of the early Masters and Mariners of the Boothbay region, grouped under Boothbay, Southport, Edgecomb, Westport, Wiscasset, the Upper Sheepscot, Georgetown and Bristol.