The View from Front Street: Travels Through New England's Historic Fishing Communities

by Russell Bourne

Still vital, still picturesque, New England's fishing communities have played a special role in American history. Seventeenth-century fishermen on Maine's outer islands saved the pilgrims from starvation; eighteenth-century cod fishermen helped to build America's earliest towns; nineteenth-century whalers from Nantucket and New Bedford gave the nation its first great fortunes. The fishermen's fierce sense of independence helped inspire the American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393025772
• ISBN13: 9780393025774
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.