Bibliograph

Alone at sea, Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623-1939, John N. Morris

Type

Label

Alone at sea, Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623-1939, John N. Morris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alone at sea

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

466357614

Responsibility statement

John N. Morris

Sub title

Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623-1939

Table Of Contents

book 1: Climb to greatness (1623-1869) -- A time before the dorymen -- A new future? -- The arrival of the mackerel -- Period of expansion -- The mackerel prosperity of the 1850s -- Civil War -- Dory fishing comes to Gloucester -- To be a dory fisherman -- book 2: The time of the master mariners (1870-1899) -- Reciprocity and the Bay -- Disaster on the Banks -- Immigrant fishermen come to Gloucester -- A scarcity of fish -- Fishing for halibut off Iceland -- Gloucester's move into the fresh-haddock fishery -- book 3: A time of transition (1900-1910) -- Stabilization of the fleet and the coming of the auxiliaries -- An end of innocence -- The changing fleet and the changing Gloucester fisheries -- Gloucester's thriving "fresh-fish" fleet -- book 4: The war years (1911-1919) -- Cheap, duty-free fish enter Gloucester -- Gloucester on the verge of war -- The world changes : war comes to Europe -- 1915 : an altered landscape -- 1916 : the lull before the storm -- Winds of war in early 1917 -- 1918 : the war comes to America -- 1919 : an uncertain transition -- book 5: "In a breeze-of-wind" (1920-1939) -- Economic decline and the first of the international fishermen's races : Mayflower versus Delawana -- The coming of the racing fishermen : Mayflower and Bluenose -- 1922 : "The worst has passed" and the races go on : Puritan and Henry Ford -- 1923 : yet Another great Gloucester racing schooner, "Piney's" Columbia -- The fisheries in the mid- to late-1920s, beginning with the 1924 turnaround -- The Great Depression -- The mackerel fishery in the Depression -- The halibut fishery in the Depression -- The end of an era -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Glossary of terms -- Appendix B: Fish landings -- Appendix C: The Gloucester fleet, vessels lost, men lost at sea

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