Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake by Robert Barrie 1st Edition 1909

Description: Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake By Robert Barrie and George Barrie, Jr. Published by The Franklin Press, Philadelphia, 1909 First edition Hardcover. Green cloth with black decoration and titling Black & White Photographs, 1 fold-out map. Octavo. [x], 276, [3] pages. 8 ½ x 6 inches Seller’s tag from Yachting and owner name on front endpaper A Chesapeake Bay classic. The first book to draw significant attention to the Bay as ideally suited for pleasure boating. The Barrie brothers were members of the Corinthian Yacht Club in Philadelphia, and made their first cruise the Bay in 1897 by way of the C&D Canal, just at the beginning of the reign of the skipjack among Chesapeake Bay workboats. There were also numerous other workboats plying the Bay's waters then, but yachts, as George Barrie later recalled, "in those days were almost as scarce as hen's teeth." Includes many interesting vignettes of Annapolis, Oxford, St. Michael's, activity around the boatyards, etc. Illustrated with dozens of photographic plates depicting the indigenous sailing craft as well as scenes inshore towns and boatyards. Condition: Near fine. Light rubbing to spine. Mild toning to endpapers. Minor water stain encompassing fore edges of pages 157-211, not affecting text.

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