Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides

by William M. Fowler Jr.

Book Overview

Silas Talbot's life illuminates his time--not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic--a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it.

Silas Talbot was a farmer's son who went to sea, learned the building trades, saved and invested his money wisely, married well several...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913372730
• ISBN13: 9780913372739
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 10.2"