Author: Massachusetts. Commissioner of Public Records
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties
Author: Massachusetts. Commissioner of Public Records
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties
Author: Massachusetts. Record Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Report of the Commissioner of Public Records
Author: Massachusetts. Record Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Report on the Custody and Conditions of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties ...
Author: Massachusetts. Record Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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A Manual for the Use of the General Court
Author: Massachusetts. General Court
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Contains rules of both branches of the General Court, the constitution of the commonwealth and that of the United States, lists of executive, legislative and judicial departments of the state, etc.
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Contains rules of both branches of the General Court, the constitution of the commonwealth and that of the United States, lists of executive, legislative and judicial departments of the state, etc.
The History of Cape Cod
Author: Frederick Freeman
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Category : Barnstable County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Barnstable County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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An American Family, 1575 - 1945
Author: James Edmond Carbine
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Ancestors of the authors in New England, Pennsylvania, MIchigan, New York, New Mexico and elsewhere.
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Ancestors of the authors in New England, Pennsylvania, MIchigan, New York, New Mexico and elsewhere.
The annals of the thirteen towns of Barnstable County
Author: Frederick Freeman
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Category : Barnstable County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category : Barnstable County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Herman Melville's Whaling Years
Author: Wilson Lumpkin Heflin
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling vessels in the Pacific during the early 1840s. Melville would later draw repeatedly on these experiences in his writing, from his first successful novel, Typee, through his masterpiece Moby-Dick, to the poetry he wrote late in life. During his time in the Pacific, Melville served on three whaling ships, as well as on a U.S. Navy man-of-war. As a deserter from one whaleship, he spent four weeks among the cannibals of Nukahiva in the Marquesas, seeing those islands in a relatively untouched state before they were irrevocably changed by French annexation in 1842. Rebelling against duty on another ship, he was held as a prisoner in a native calaboose in Tahiti. He prowled South American ports while on liberty, hunted giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, and explored the islands of Eimeo (Moorea) and Maui. He also saw the Society and Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands when the Western missionary presence was at its height. Heflin combed the logbooks of any ship at sea at the time of Melville's voyages and examined nineteenth-century newspaper items, especially the marine intelligence columns, for mention of Melville's vessels. He also studied British consular records pertaining to the mutiny aboard the Australian whaler Lucy Ann, an insurrection in which Melville participated and which inspired his second novel, Omoo. Distilling the life's work of a leading Melville expert into book form for the first time, this scrupulously edited volume is the most in-depth account ever published of Melville's years on whaleships and how those singular experiences influenced his writing.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling vessels in the Pacific during the early 1840s. Melville would later draw repeatedly on these experiences in his writing, from his first successful novel, Typee, through his masterpiece Moby-Dick, to the poetry he wrote late in life. During his time in the Pacific, Melville served on three whaling ships, as well as on a U.S. Navy man-of-war. As a deserter from one whaleship, he spent four weeks among the cannibals of Nukahiva in the Marquesas, seeing those islands in a relatively untouched state before they were irrevocably changed by French annexation in 1842. Rebelling against duty on another ship, he was held as a prisoner in a native calaboose in Tahiti. He prowled South American ports while on liberty, hunted giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, and explored the islands of Eimeo (Moorea) and Maui. He also saw the Society and Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands when the Western missionary presence was at its height. Heflin combed the logbooks of any ship at sea at the time of Melville's voyages and examined nineteenth-century newspaper items, especially the marine intelligence columns, for mention of Melville's vessels. He also studied British consular records pertaining to the mutiny aboard the Australian whaler Lucy Ann, an insurrection in which Melville participated and which inspired his second novel, Omoo. Distilling the life's work of a leading Melville expert into book form for the first time, this scrupulously edited volume is the most in-depth account ever published of Melville's years on whaleships and how those singular experiences influenced his writing.