Search Results: Maritime and seafaring from Focloir

Gaelic 229mcac McLean, Allan Campbell (Ailean Caimbeul Mac'Illeathain). Air a' chanal/Waterways. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis: Acair, 1980, 22 pages each, illus, paperbound. Two children's books, one in Scottish Gaelic, other in English translation. Very colorful. Fine condition. The two pamphlets: $9.50

Americana gds (Gloucester fishermen/schooners). Garland, Joseph E. Down to the sea: the fishing schooners of Gloucester. Introduction by Sterling Hayden. Boston: David R. Godine, 1983, xiv, 224p, bib, index, illus. Some dust spotting to paper edges, good to very good. $15.00
Considered the best work on the Gloucester fishing industry until the publication of Alone at sea. Sterling Hayden was a famous actor with a great love for the sea.

Civil War France, CSA Bigelow, John, 1817-1911. France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868; an international episode. New York: Bergman Publishers, [1968], x, 247 pages, index, portrait. Reprint of the 1888 edition. Very good copy of the hardcover. $17.50 Box 787

Ancient world sgwo Schildt, Goran. In The Wake of Odysseus. Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair.London/New York: Staples, 1953. 315 pages, black and white photos. Blue cloth, spine sunfaded, good, tight, clean copy. Interesting travelogue with the author sailing in the Mediterranean visiting many of the places found in the Odyssey. $6.50 Box 30

Scotland spld Smith, Peter. The Lammas Drave and the Winter Herrin'. A History of the Herring Industry from East Fife. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1985, x, 166p, bib, photos, paperbound. Very good copy. $6.00 Box A 124

Egypt 001 Fabre, David. Seafaring in ancient Egypt. London: Periplus Publishing 2004/2005, xxiv, 278 pages, appendices, bib, index. A large, heavy volume, very nicely done, illustrated with maps, drawings, and photos, many of which are in color. Very good to fine copy in like dust jacket. $32.50 Top shelf left.
Mr Fabre earned a Ph. D. in Egyptology and has authored numerous articles on the subject.

Sweden klao Kvarning, Lars-Ake & Ohrelius, Bengt. The Vasa - The royal ship. Fourth, expanded edition. Stockholm: Atlantis, 1998, 173 pages, illus. Nice illustrations. Very good copy of the hardcover in very good dust jacket. $21.50 Box 787

Scotland dcgl Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce and Graham Easton Langmuir. West Highland Steamers. Third edition. Prescot, Lancs., U.K.: T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd, 1967, xiv, 204 pages. photos, index. Very good copy in like dust jacket. $12.50 Box 4

Scotland ljws Leirfall, Jon. West over sea: reminders of Norse ascendency from Shetland to Dublin. Translated by Kenneth Young from the Norwegian Vest i Havet. Sandwick, Shetland Islands: Thule Press, 1979, 159p, illus. Very nice copy in dust jacket. $16.50 Box A 114