Off Soundings: Aspects of the Maritime History of Rhode Island [Hardcover]

Alexander Boyd Hawes (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 323 pages
• Publisher: Posterity Pr Inc (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889274054
• ISBN-13: 978-1889274058
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,038,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Rhode Island's Salty History, February 18, 2000

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This review is from: Off Soundings: Aspects of the Maritime History of Rhode Island (Hardcover)

This book is for anyone interested in the sea and the maritime history of Rhode Island, New England or the United States for that matter. It is a must-have for serious scholars of the age of sail and for armchair sailors alike as it examines the exciting and sometimes scandalous past. As Donald D. Breed wrote in the Providence Journal 2/13), "Do not look for this book on the coffee tables of many of Rhode Island's first families. On the one hand it is a scholarly almost dry history of a great many extended voyages by Rhode Island mariners. But it is also an expose of the nefarious activities of those seagoing men: piracy, the slave trade, running opium. To read it is to gain a new appreciation of why the colony was known as 'Rogue's Island.'... This is a hard book to put down, the subject matter is so gripping."