A kind of salt you can't shake
Subtitle: one long lineage of boatmen
By: by Whitney McKendree Moore with Captain Earl E. Maxfield, Jr
Contributors: Maxfield, Earl E., Jr, contributor
Publisher: Whitney McKendree Moore
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781492941644
Subjects: Merchant mariners; Biography; Seafaring life; Vie en mer
Description: This book is based on the collected papers of Captain Earl E. Maxfield, Jr., who comes from a long line of mariners: schooner-barge captains, tugboat pilots, even a whaler from New Bedford. They do not call themselves by title; they call themselves "boatmen." Their tales are sometimes harrowing, sometimes tragic, and they bring the reader into an up-close-and-personal experience of what it means to "stand on tiptoe" behind the wheel of a towing tug. (from the back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, page 147.
Table of contents: title: A lineage and a legacy; title: One long lineage of boatmen; title: The legacy: Valuable and often valiant service; title: A closer look.