Life on a Canal Boat
Subtitle: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889
Edition: Illustrate edition
Publisher: Purple Mountain Press, Ltd.
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781930098596
Subjects: Transportation; River life; Canal-boats; History; Waterways; Ships & Shipbuilding - General; 19th century; Champlain, Lake, Region
First sentence: THEODORE BARTLEY lived during an era of extraordinary expansion of the American economy and rapid technological development, which included telephones, electric lights, ironclad warships, ocean-going steamships, and improvements in steel-making and railroads.
Description: "Captain Theodore D. Bartley, owner of three Lake Champlain canal boats, kept a fascinating day-to-day journal of his life from 1861 to 1889 on the canals and waterways of the Northeast."--Back cover.