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BURROUGHS, Polly TILTON, Zebulon Northrop Zeb : A Celebrated Schooner Life. 1st in dj
Chatham Press, 1972,
BURROUGHS, Polly. Zeb : A Celebrated Schooner Life. Riverside, CT : ChathamPress, Inc., (1972). First Printing. Pp (8),9-160. Illustrated. 4to, grey cloth. With Special Photography by Alfred Eisenstaedt, also Bernice Abbott,Alice Austen, Samuel Chamberlain, Jacob Riis, Morris Rosenfeld and many ot hers. The brief intersection of declining coastwise merchant sail and emergent mass electronic media produced only one genuine star that I am aware of: Zebulon Northrop Tilton, who, with his schooner Alice S. Wentworth, was much fêted by New York stars such as James Cagney and Burgess Meredith, and whose exploits often enlivened Gotham's tabloid papers. "Zebulon Northrop Tilton was a huge cross-eyed schooner captain, born in 1867 on Martha's Vineyard Island, who it is said, could have sailed the Alice S. Wentworth to Chicago on a heavy dew. . His rigorous and celebrated life afloat, his countless shenanigans ashore, his love for women and for his Alice, his enormous skill, strength and wit form the image of an unmistakably real American folk hero. Zeb and his famous coastal schooner experienced the heyday and closing of an unforgettable era hauling all manner of freight under sail from the rough docks on South Street in New York to the icy Kennebec River in Maine. "Mrs. Burroughs has faithfully recreated his incredible life and times from masses of newspaper accounts and family records, from the words of friends and cronies, and from a wealth of historic and special contemporary photographs. The result is the true log of a hard and hearty seafaring life richly and colorfully spiced with authentic Yankee humor and with the many personalities who crossed Zeb's path. " - from the dj. Vg in nicked dj. A nice copy. 50.00
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50.00 CDN
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