Ships and memories : merchant seafarers in Canada's age of steam / / Eric W. Sager

• Autore: Sager Eric W. <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 387.5/0971/0904
• Soggetto topico: Merchant marine - Canada - History - 20th century; Merchant mariners - Canada; Steam-navigation - Canada - History; Sea stories; Authors, Canadian - 20th century; Shipping - Canada - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Yarns -- Going to Sea -- Work -- Officers and Masters -- Class -- Family -- Masculinity -- Hazards -- War -- Union -- Canada -- Notes -- Glossary -- Sources and Collaborators -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Canada is a great maritime nation. Although ships and the sea have been part of its history for centuries, very little is known about the men and women who have worked in its coastal and lake fleets. Ships and Memories is a fascinating account of life at sea during the age of steam. In it, seafarers tell ther own stories and remember the good times as well as the bad, in peace and war and during the depression. Eric Sager draws on interviews with master mariners, engineers, able seamen, cooks, stewards, and many others who worked aboard steamships from 1920 to 1950.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ships and memories
• ISBN: 1-283-22573-5; 9786613225733; 0-7748-5464-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814762903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II