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A Flick of Sunshine

The Remarkable Shipwrecked, Marooned, Maritime Adventures, and Tragic Fate of an American Original

By: Alexander Jackson Hill,Frederic B. Hill,Frederick B. Hill

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A Flick of Sunshine

The Remarkable Shipwrecked, Marooned, Maritime Adventures, and Tragic Fate of an American Original

By: Alexander Jackson Hill,Frederic B. Hill,Frederick B. Hill

The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn and running down Alaskan glaciers over a tragically shortened life that ended in a most bizarre and pedestrian incident on the eve of realizing his life’s ambition: appointment as master of a ship. After nine months of sometimes perilous life among natives in the South Sea islands in 1884, captured in chapters of a book he helped write, Jackson served on a series of large ships and coastal schooners – all based in the post-Gold Rush boomtown of San Francisco – that took him up and down the west coast from Alaska to Mexico and to the four corners of the earth. His faithful letters to his family in Maine and a diary provide a colorful background for a compelling portrait of an extraordinary young man of character and independent spirit, intellect and curiosity, no small ambition and that most admirable of traits, an abiding sense of humor.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493060821

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9781493060825

Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs

The Rise and Fall of the Crooker Shipyard in Bath, Maine

By: Frederic B. Hill

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Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs

The Rise and Fall of the Crooker Shipyard in Bath, Maine

By: Frederic B. Hill

Brothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the world during that time. This colorful history of the Crookers' company by the great-great grandson of William Donnell provides a thorough overview of a family, its contributions to shipbuilding, and the historic sweep of shipbuilding in the area, as well as a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in Maine during this time. Today, a small portion of Maine's twenty-first-century shipbuilder, Bath Iron Works, occupies land that was once the Crooker yard.

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Down East Books

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1608934519

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9781608934515

A Flick of Sunshine

The Remarkable Shipwrecked, Marooned, Maritime Adventures, and Tragic Fate of an American Original

By: Alexander Jackson Hill,Frederic B. Hill,Frederick B. Hill

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A Flick of Sunshine

The Remarkable Shipwrecked, Marooned, Maritime Adventures, and Tragic Fate of an American Original

By: Alexander Jackson Hill,Frederic B. Hill,Frederick B. Hill

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A Flick of Sunshine

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