Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS
Title: Material History Review - Number 48, Fall 1998 *Ships, Seafaring and Small Craft*
Description: Canada: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Features: "Probably the most beautiful Rowboat afloat" - The Form and Meaning of the St. Lawrence Skiff; "The Featherweight and the Backwoods" and the evolution of the pack canoe; Reassembly of a Sixteenth-Century Basque Chalupa; Recent Advances in Ship History and Archeaeology, 1450-1650 - Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies; The Amsler Integrator and the Burden of Calculation; Snagboats and "Dead-Heads" - Interpreting History Onboard the W.T. Preston; Le Marco Polo, un navire canadien de renommee mondiale au milieu du XIXe siecle; Boat Models, Buoys and Board Games - Reflecting and Reliving Watermen's Work; Culture Materielle et niveaux de richesse chez les pecheurs de Plaisance et de l'ile Royale, 1700-1758; Emotion as Document - Death and Dying in the Second World War Art of Jack Nichols; "You Paint Me a Ship as is Like a Ship" - The Verkin Ship Portraits; Mi-marins, mi-mages - caracteres de l'univers magico-religieux des pecheurs et des gens de mer du littoral tyrrhenien; Les objets du rite - le bapteme de la Ligne; Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven - the Phenomonon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond; Recent Media Treatment of the Titanic Tragedy; Edutainment and the Museum - a cautionary tale; plus 10 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; St. Lawrence Skiff; "The Featherweight and the Backwoods" and the evolution of the pack canoe; Reassembly of a Sixteenth-Century Basque Chalupa; Recent Advances in Ship History and Archeaeology, 1450-1650 - Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studie. Good .

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