![]() Free and open, so drop by for one talk or come for them all!īy way of follow-up to yesterday's post regarding the rare book up for auction on Sunday which may bear the image of its subject, the good folks at Wilkinson's Auctioneers in Doncaster have sent me some further information about the book and some images, which are used here with permissio n. ![]() Eve LaPlante, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewalland American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne HutchinsonĪuthors will be signing books after their discussions, and copies of all the books will be available for purchase. Lane: An Artist's Voyage Through Nineteenth-Century America Diane Rapaport, The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England (or ) Bonnie Hurd Smith, "Mingling Souls Upon Paper": An Eighteenth-Century Love Story (Judith Sargent and John Murray) Susan Wilson, The Literary Trail of Greater Boston Stephanie Schorow, The Cocoanut Grove Fire and The Crime of the Century Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America ![]() Robert Allison, The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Partyįriday, 7 p.m. The speaker lineup is as follows:įriday, 6 p.m. The Massachusetts Historical Society (1154 Boylston Street in Boston) is hosting its first Massachusetts History Book Fair this Friday evening and Saturday (30 November and 1 December). If you're in need of something bookish to do this weekend, and you live reasonably close to Boston, read on! Recommended for maritime aficionados, treasure hunters, or others with an interest in the subject. Focusing on fewer wrecks in more detail might have improved the book, but the approach Shomette took works fairly well. He devotes significant space to the American Revolution, several major storms in the late 1880s, and the German U-boat attacks during WWII, but Shomette also discusses many lesser-known events and happenings, and closes by outlining some of the great ongoing battles over salvage rights and treasure-hunting.Īn impressive work, all the more so when coupled with the extensive list of all known wrecks in the region, which follows the text. Drawing on archival sources Shomette offers vignettes of a small portion of the shipwrecks that have occurred off the coast of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Donald Shomette's Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004 ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) is a meticulously-researched anthology of, well, exactly what its title suggests it is.
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