New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow

by Samuel F. Manning

New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow , by Samuel F. Manning, is a small, softcover book that brings to focus the early settlement of coastal New England and the forgotten mast trade upon which the American lumbering and shipping enterprises were built. Timber was New England's best cash crop at the beginning of colonial settlement. But not just any timber. The kind of timber instantly saleable across the Atlantic were the tallest trees in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884482235
• ISBN13: 9780884482239
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"