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For nearly a century members of the Sewall family of Bath, Maine, built and managed a fleet of stout deepwater square-riggers--a fascinating story. Correspondence from their captains offers adventure of another kind--mutinies, shipwrecks, and "cannibal isles."

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For nearly a century members of the Sewall family of Bath, Maine, built and managed a fleet of stout deepwater square-riggers--a fascinating story. Correspondence from their captains offers adventure of another kind--mutinies, shipwrecks, and "cannibal isles."
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W. H. "BILL" Bunting is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works of history including Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914; Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops: The Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins; A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920 (in two volumes); The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Sea and Shore in New England; Live Yankees; and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. With Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., he wrote An Eye for the Coast: The Monhegan and Maritime Photographs of Eric Hudson and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. Bill Bunting shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13 and later completed a 25,000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine.