Description
We just received a few copies of this book and have marked it down.
The editor of WoodenBoat magazine offers a fascinating short history of the golden age of American yachting by rediscovering one photographer's extraordinary archive.
For forty years after the turn of last century, Willard Jackson trolled the waters off Marblehead, Massachusetts, in a custom motor launch carrying a wooden camera and a box of glass-plate negatives. His quarry? Any vessel that made its way into and out of that mecca of American sailing. Over a century later, the archive of several thousand pictures he collected stands as a one-of-a-kind record of the early development of the American yacht. Matthew Murphy, editor of WoodenBoat magazine, uses Jackson's remarkable work to trace the history of the pleasure sailboat. Each of 75 sharp, breathtaking images is accompanied by a 300-word caption.
Hardcover
192 pages
You may notice that this title is marked down despite being newly restocked. This is a limited quantity return from an earlier printing, and while the books are brand-new and unread, they’ve been stored and handled over time. Rather than return them to full price, we’ve marked them down to reflect their age and to pass the savings along.
The content is unchanged, the books are in excellent condition, and once this small batch is gone, it may be some time before the title is available again.