Commonwealth Editions

Name: The Islands of Boston Harbor
Brand: Edward Rowe Snow
SKU: 9781933212852
Price: 14.95 USD
Availability: InStock

[View all Commonwealth Editions books]

32 products

Sort

The Islands of Boston Harbor

$14.95

Storms and Shipwrecks of New England

$14.95

Big Dig

$12.95

Revolutionary Boston, Lexington, and Concord

$14.95 $7.48 Save 50%

A Short History of Portland

$14.95 $7.48 Save 50%

Ipswich: Stories from the River's Mouth

Lighthouses of New England

$21.95

Mysteries and Adventures Along the Atlantic Coast

$21.95

Picturing Rhode Island

$29.95

The Lighthouses of Connecticut

$14.95

The Lighthouses of Maine

$19.95

Christmas in New England

$19.95

The Cocoanut Grove Fire

Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast

$29.95

The Naked Quaker

$19.95

Boston's Abolitionists

A Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod

$14.95

The Lighthouses of New England

$14.95

The Lighthouses of Maine

$14.95

The Lighthouses of Maine

$14.95

Historic Storms of New England

The Islands of Boston Harbor

9781933212852

$14.95

A reissue of Edward Rowe Snow's first book, covering the legends and history of nearly every rock and island in Boston Harbor, including Boston Light and Graves Light. The first (1935) edition resulted from research Snow did at Harvard under the tutelage of the great maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison. When the 1971 edition of the book was published, a critic for the Boston Post wrote, Mr. Snow has the gift of making his subject vivid and personal in its anecdotal touches . . . It is a volume of chatty yet dignified essays, with many a light touch brought in. This centennial edition contains the complete 1971 text, with annotations by Jeremy D'Entremont to bring the information up to date.

Storms and Shipwrecks of New England

9781933212210

$14.95

A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls stories of stormy adventure. Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.

Revolutionary Boston, Lexington, and Concord

9781641941112

$14.95 $7.48 Save 50%

The only complete visitors' guide to the Revolutionary history and sites of Boston, Bunker Hill, the Freedom Trail, and the Battle Road, including Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Concord, Lincoln, Acton, and Sudbury.

A Short History of Portland

9781933212432

$14.95 $7.48 Save 50%

Maine's largest city is celebrated in this concise narrative history, abundantly illustrated, with a lengthy and informative timeline of key events, and featuring two dozen biographical profiles of important Portland people.Who knew so many surprises could await a reader? Destroyed by four nations, birthplace to both national heroes and villains, burned, reborn, and still building anew in the twenty-first century, one of America's most surprising small cities comes to life in this bright, brisk history.-Rep. Herb Adams, historian and Maine State Legislator

Women of the Sea

9781889833781

$19.95

The women in Edward Rowe Snow's life -- his mother, his wife, and his daughter -- were all-important to him. So it's not surprising that the master of New England maritime lore dedicated an entire book to heroines of the deep.Ever since the beginning of time, women have played a far greater part in the lives of men, both ashore and at sea, than the average man cares to admit, wrote Snow in his introduction to the original 1962 edition of Women of the Sea. I have on hand a list of more than 600 items which show women out on the ocean at their best and at their worst.Included in this lively collection of tales are: Hannah Burgess, who navigated her husband's clipper ship safely to port after his deathHis Kai Ching, a widow who took command of her husband's pirate fleetMrs. Jones, a Methodist missionary who was the sole survivor of the Maria, wrecked off the coast of Antigua in 1826Madame Desnoyer, who was cast adrift with her two children and a servant off Santo Domingo in 1767, after her husband had been murderedAlice Rowe Snow, the author's own mother, who spent most of her first twenty years at sea aboard ships commanded by her fatherAs with the other Snow Centennial Editions, first issued in 2002 on the 100th anniversary of Snow's birth, Women of the Sea has been edited and updated by historian Jeremy D'Entremont. It features a foreword by Snow's daughter and only child, Dorothy Snow Bicknell.

The Naked Quaker

9781933212579

$19.95

On court days in colonial New England, folks gathered from miles around to listen as local magistrates convened to hear cases. In the abundant records extant from these hearings, we experience the passions and concerns of ordinary people, often in their own words, more than three centuries after the emotion-charged events that brought them to court. Rapaport is a lawyer and historian who, by drawing on these court records, has created an award-winning column for New England Ancestors, the journal of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Some of the twenty-five true stories in The Naked Quaker were previously published there; others are new to this volume. Rapaport's topics include: Witches and Wild Women, Coupling, Tavern Tales, and Sunday Meeting. The title story concerns a Quaker woman who walked into Puritan Sunday meeting and dropped her dress in front of the gathering, to protest actions of the colonial authorities. The Naked Quaker takes us into the lives of our ancestors, revealing how they behaved and spoke. The word Puritan conjures up dour images of seventeenth-century New Englanders. We rarely think of Puritans as people who had fun, or sex. But while our ancestors used different words, human nature was not so different 350 years ago.

A Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod

9781933212890

$14.95

Edward Rowe Snow (1902-1982) is remembered as one of the most vivid chroniclers of New England maritime history. Beginning with the publication of The Islands of Boston Harbor in 1935, he made his name as a historian of the New England coast-and also as a popular storyteller, lecturer, preservationist, and treasure hunter. For forty years, Snow flew to the lighthouses of New England as the Flying Santa, dropping Christmas parcels for the keepers and their families. A granite memorial to Edward Rowe Snow, Mr. New England, on Georges Island in Boston Harbor was dedicated in 2002 by his many friends. Jeremy D'Entremont is a lighthouse historian, writer and photographer, and webmaster of New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide at www.lighthouse.cc. Commonwealth Editions reissued A Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod, one of Snow's most enduring classics, in recognition of the centennial of Snow's birth in August 1902. First published in 1946, Pilgrim is notable for what updater Jeremy D'Entremont calls the sheer volume of colorful, dramatic, harrowing, and humorous history and legends. It is one of the most entertaining and satisfying works produced by the prolific Mr. New England.

The Lighthouses of New England

9781933212203

$14.95

This is a reissue of one of Edward Rowe Snow's most enduring classics. First published in 1945, it relates the histories of over fifty of the region's lighthouses in rich detail. Snow gives special emphasis to the story of heroine Abbie Burgess at Maine's Matinicus Rock Light, to the rich histories of Boston Light and Minot's Ledge Light. Modern day lighthouse expert Jeremy D'Entremont has provided extensive annotations to Snow's chapters, bringing the information about each lighthouse up to date.

The Lighthouses of Maine

9781938700118

$14.95

New England's foremost maritime historian Jeremy D'Entremont continues his definitive series about the storms, shipwrecks, and heroic lighthouse keepers of the region with The Lighthouses of Maine: Kennebec River to the Midcoast. Fifteen lights are detailed here, beginning with Seguin Light, located on Seguin Island, two-and-a-half miles off the mouth of the Kennebec River, to Marshall Point Light at the entrance to Port Clyde Harbor. The last chapter describes miscellenous lightships and lights that no longer exist. Each chapter features a treasury of historic photos and all the stories of the keepers, the storms they battled, and the wrecks they tried valiantly to save.

The Lighthouses of Maine

9781938700132

$14.95

New England's foremost maritime historian Jeremy D'Entremont continues his definitive series about the storms, shipwrecks, and heroic lighthouse keepers of the region with The Lighthouses of Maine: Acadia Region and the Bold Coast. Twenty-two lights are detailed here, beginning with Burnt Coat Harbor Light, on Swan's Island in Blue Hill Bay, to the northernmost lighthouse in the state, Whitlocks Mill Light, located on the St. Croix River near Calais. Each chapter features a treasury of historic photos and all the stories of the keepers, the storms they battled, and the wrecks they tried valiantly to save.

The Naked Quaker

9781933212968

$14.95

On court days in colonial New England, folks gathered from miles around to listen as local magistrates convened to hear cases. In the abundant records extant from these hearings, we experience the passions and concerns of ordinary people, often in their own words, more than three centuries after the emotion-charged events that brought them to court. Rapaport is a lawyer and historian who, by drawing on these court records, has created an award-winning column for New England Ancestors, the journal of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Some of the twenty-five true stories in The Naked Quaker were previously published there; others are new to this volume. Rapaport'Äôs topics include: 'ÄúWitches and Wild Women, 'Äù 'ÄúCoupling, 'Äù 'ÄúTavern Tales, 'Äù and 'ÄúSunday Meeting.'Äù The title story concerns a Quaker woman who walked into Puritan Sunday meeting and dropped her dress in front of the gathering, to protest actions of the colonial authorities.