Author: Wayne Soini
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614232334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In 1817, as Gloucester, Massachusetts, was recovering from the War of 1812, something beneath the water was about to cause a stir in this New England coastal community. It was a misty August day when two women first sighted Gloucester's sea serpent, touching off a riptide of excitement among residents that reached a climax when Matt Gaffney fired a direct shot at the creature. Local historian Wayne Soini explores the depths of Gloucester harbor to reveal a treasure-trove of details behind this legendary mystery. Follow as he tracks Justice of the Peace Lonson Nash's careful investigation, the world's first scientific study of this marine animal, and judges the credibility of numerous reported sightings.
Gloucester's Sea Serpent
Author: Wayne Soini
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614232334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In 1817, as Gloucester, Massachusetts, was recovering from the War of 1812, something beneath the water was about to cause a stir in this New England coastal community. It was a misty August day when two women first sighted Gloucester's sea serpent, touching off a riptide of excitement among residents that reached a climax when Matt Gaffney fired a direct shot at the creature. Local historian Wayne Soini explores the depths of Gloucester harbor to reveal a treasure-trove of details behind this legendary mystery. Follow as he tracks Justice of the Peace Lonson Nash's careful investigation, the world's first scientific study of this marine animal, and judges the credibility of numerous reported sightings.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614232334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In 1817, as Gloucester, Massachusetts, was recovering from the War of 1812, something beneath the water was about to cause a stir in this New England coastal community. It was a misty August day when two women first sighted Gloucester's sea serpent, touching off a riptide of excitement among residents that reached a climax when Matt Gaffney fired a direct shot at the creature. Local historian Wayne Soini explores the depths of Gloucester harbor to reveal a treasure-trove of details behind this legendary mystery. Follow as he tracks Justice of the Peace Lonson Nash's careful investigation, the world's first scientific study of this marine animal, and judges the credibility of numerous reported sightings.
The Great New England Sea Serpent
Author: J. P. O'Neill
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616406321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Is it a strange mammal related to the seals, a descendant of a prehistoric reptile, or a new, unidentified animal? Whatever it is, or was, the witnesses call it a sea serpent. Remarkably similar descriptions of a creature with a long body, undulating motion, and horse-sized, snake-like head have left a trail of clues and controversy going back three centuries. In "The Great New England Sea Serpent," J.P. O'Neill draws on the historical record as well as previously unpublished first-hand accounts to chronicle more than 230 sightings of the mysterious marine creatures inhabiting the Gulf of Maine.
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616406321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Is it a strange mammal related to the seals, a descendant of a prehistoric reptile, or a new, unidentified animal? Whatever it is, or was, the witnesses call it a sea serpent. Remarkably similar descriptions of a creature with a long body, undulating motion, and horse-sized, snake-like head have left a trail of clues and controversy going back three centuries. In "The Great New England Sea Serpent," J.P. O'Neill draws on the historical record as well as previously unpublished first-hand accounts to chronicle more than 230 sightings of the mysterious marine creatures inhabiting the Gulf of Maine.
The Serpent Came to Gloucester
Author: M.T. Anderson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763620386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An award-winning author and illustrator present a tribute to the beauty and mystery of the ocean. It came from the sea, from the lonely sea, It came from the glittering sea. In a small Massachusetts fishing village in August of 1817, dozens of citizens claimed to have seen an enormous sea serpent swimming off the coast. Terrified at first, the people of Gloucester eventually became quite accustomed to their new neighbor. Adventure seekers came from miles around to study the serpent and aggressively hunt it down, but the creature eluded capture. The Gloucester sea serpent was then, and remains now, a complete mystery. Reviving the rhythms and tone of a traditional sea chanty, M.T. Anderson recounts this exhilarating sea adventure through the eyes of a little boy who secretly hopes for the serpent's survival. The author's captivating verse is paired with Bagram Ibatoulline's luminous paintings, created in the spirit of nineteenth-century New England maritime artists.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763620386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An award-winning author and illustrator present a tribute to the beauty and mystery of the ocean. It came from the sea, from the lonely sea, It came from the glittering sea. In a small Massachusetts fishing village in August of 1817, dozens of citizens claimed to have seen an enormous sea serpent swimming off the coast. Terrified at first, the people of Gloucester eventually became quite accustomed to their new neighbor. Adventure seekers came from miles around to study the serpent and aggressively hunt it down, but the creature eluded capture. The Gloucester sea serpent was then, and remains now, a complete mystery. Reviving the rhythms and tone of a traditional sea chanty, M.T. Anderson recounts this exhilarating sea adventure through the eyes of a little boy who secretly hopes for the serpent's survival. The author's captivating verse is paired with Bagram Ibatoulline's luminous paintings, created in the spirit of nineteenth-century New England maritime artists.
Monsters of Massachusetts
Author: Loren Coleman
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811753050
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Loren Coleman is the first and last name in cryptozoology. He's blazed the trail for so many of us. Massachusetts mysteries like the Dover Demon and the Bridgewater Triangle have names because Coleman discovered and named them. His years of research gathering the cryptid sightings, physical evidence, and details of these strange creatures and legends have paid off in a big way in Monsters of Massachusetts. --Jeff Belanger, author of Weird Massachusetts Bizarre beasts of the Bay State featured in this volume include . . . • Dover Demon • Gloucester Sea Serpent • Hockomock Swamp's Beasties • Pukwudgees • Bigfoot
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811753050
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Loren Coleman is the first and last name in cryptozoology. He's blazed the trail for so many of us. Massachusetts mysteries like the Dover Demon and the Bridgewater Triangle have names because Coleman discovered and named them. His years of research gathering the cryptid sightings, physical evidence, and details of these strange creatures and legends have paid off in a big way in Monsters of Massachusetts. --Jeff Belanger, author of Weird Massachusetts Bizarre beasts of the Bay State featured in this volume include . . . • Dover Demon • Gloucester Sea Serpent • Hockomock Swamp's Beasties • Pukwudgees • Bigfoot
The Book of Sea Monsters
Author: Bob Eggleton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879518608
Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Explores the myth, legend, scientific documentation, and fiction inspired by sea monsters.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879518608
Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Explores the myth, legend, scientific documentation, and fiction inspired by sea monsters.
Legends and Lore of the North Shore
Author: Peter Muise
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625850484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
For over three hundred years, stories of witches, sea serpents and pirates have amazed and terrified residents of Massachusetts's North Shore. In the summer of 1692, phantom men were spotted in the fields of Gloucester. Farther north, "A" marks the spot for pirate treasure in the marshes of Newbury, while to the east, full moons might bring out the werewolf of Dogtown. The devil himself has burned his mark on the boulder-strewn landscape, while shaggy humanoids have been sighted loping along the coast. From Boston to New Hampshire, Massachusetts's North Shore is filled with remarkable stories and legendary characters. Join author Peter Muise and discover the North Shore's uncanny legends and tales of the paranormal.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625850484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
For over three hundred years, stories of witches, sea serpents and pirates have amazed and terrified residents of Massachusetts's North Shore. In the summer of 1692, phantom men were spotted in the fields of Gloucester. Farther north, "A" marks the spot for pirate treasure in the marshes of Newbury, while to the east, full moons might bring out the werewolf of Dogtown. The devil himself has burned his mark on the boulder-strewn landscape, while shaggy humanoids have been sighted loping along the coast. From Boston to New Hampshire, Massachusetts's North Shore is filled with remarkable stories and legendary characters. Join author Peter Muise and discover the North Shore's uncanny legends and tales of the paranormal.
The Sea Serpent
Author: William Crafts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Unidentified
Author: Colin Dickey
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525557571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --Buzzfeed America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today's Illuminati is yesterday's Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America's wildest fringe beliefs--from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials, or possibly both, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam, to the museum containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat Shower--investigating how these theories come about, why they take hold, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious, wry, brilliant in his analysis, yet eminently readable.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525557571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --Buzzfeed America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today's Illuminati is yesterday's Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America's wildest fringe beliefs--from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials, or possibly both, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam, to the museum containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat Shower--investigating how these theories come about, why they take hold, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious, wry, brilliant in his analysis, yet eminently readable.
Ed and Jo
Author: Wayne Soini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This novel reminds readers of the creator of the "Man at the Wheel," sculptor Leonard Craske; stock market wizard Roger Babson; Lanesville's baseball-loving Fred Foster of Foster Brothers' Drug Store; Floyd the Clammer; Henry Gould, the one-legged lifeguard of Half Moon beach; heroic Howard Blackburn; Jacobson's seaside family sauna and, from way back, Gloucester's unlucky sea serpent eyewitness and chronicler, Lonson Nash. As Gloucester's Tricentennial celebration (1623-1923) unfolds, enter two artists, Ed Hopper and Jo Nivison. See Jo's cat run. After Ed finds and returns Jo's beloved Arthur, she gratefully loans him her watercolors. When Ed promptly captures a vision of Gloucester for all time, he also comes to see his fellow artiste through new eyes. The "odd couple" attend a silent movie at the North Shore Theater, party at Leon Kroll's on Rocky Neck, sketch at Good Harbor beach, explore Lane's Cove, and drink Twin Lights ginger ale, made in Rockport. By the time of the climactic Tricentennial pageant at Stage Fort Park, a question hovers over the lovers: what next? Sketching and painting in Cape Ann's legendary light by day, spooning under its starry skies when they aren't fighting, Ed and Jo waver between commitment and separation in a narrative presented in a novel here for the first time ever anywhere. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK GO TO FUND ACTIVITIES OF THE GLOUCESTER400 COMMITTEE.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This novel reminds readers of the creator of the "Man at the Wheel," sculptor Leonard Craske; stock market wizard Roger Babson; Lanesville's baseball-loving Fred Foster of Foster Brothers' Drug Store; Floyd the Clammer; Henry Gould, the one-legged lifeguard of Half Moon beach; heroic Howard Blackburn; Jacobson's seaside family sauna and, from way back, Gloucester's unlucky sea serpent eyewitness and chronicler, Lonson Nash. As Gloucester's Tricentennial celebration (1623-1923) unfolds, enter two artists, Ed Hopper and Jo Nivison. See Jo's cat run. After Ed finds and returns Jo's beloved Arthur, she gratefully loans him her watercolors. When Ed promptly captures a vision of Gloucester for all time, he also comes to see his fellow artiste through new eyes. The "odd couple" attend a silent movie at the North Shore Theater, party at Leon Kroll's on Rocky Neck, sketch at Good Harbor beach, explore Lane's Cove, and drink Twin Lights ginger ale, made in Rockport. By the time of the climactic Tricentennial pageant at Stage Fort Park, a question hovers over the lovers: what next? Sketching and painting in Cape Ann's legendary light by day, spooning under its starry skies when they aren't fighting, Ed and Jo waver between commitment and separation in a narrative presented in a novel here for the first time ever anywhere. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK GO TO FUND ACTIVITIES OF THE GLOUCESTER400 COMMITTEE.
Sea Monsters Unmasked
Author: Henry Lee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description