books about: portsmouth     books:       The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost: Being an Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, ...8 reviews J. E. Fender UPNE, 2003 A cracking great sea read I would have loved this book regardless of where it was set, but the fact that it takes place in and around the area where I grew up made it even more special for me. Rich and believable characters, settings, and battles make for an exciting and compelling read. The only detraction from an otherwise excellent book: it could have used a bit more (or maybe less?) editing. While Fender's writing is ...             History Of The United States Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1892) George Henry Preble Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008             Portsmouth, Virginia (VA) (Images of America) Robert Brooke Albertson Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2002 Located in heart of the Chesapeake Bay at the zero milepost on the Intra-coastal Waterway, Portsmouthís five historic districts and its thriving downtown are living landmarks, reminding onlookers of the gracious living, perilous times, and exciting events that often played a crucial role in the life of the nation. Here the last Colonial governor of Virginia took refuge, and here Lord Cornwallis garrisoned his British troops before going to ...             Official Portsmouth Football Club Calendar 2009 2009 Grange Communications Ltd, 2008             Portsmouth Island: short stories and history,1 review Ben B Salter, 1972 Recalling simple times This a simple read about simple times in the once bustling fishing village on Portsmouth Island in North Carolina. Anyone who has ever visited the historic fishing village or camped on Portsmouth Island can appreciate these tales. The stories recount the history of the island and some of it's inhabitants before the last resident moved off the island and before the National Park Service took it ...             Penelope Goes to Portsmouth (The Travelling Matchmaker, Vol. 3)2 reviews Marion Chesney St Martins Paperbacks, 1992 Fine piece of work Here is another fascinating look back into England during what has become known as the Regency, the early years of the 19th century, when George III was thought to be mad and his son stood in for him. The class system, which was almost a caste system, is clear again in this novel. A person was where God placed him and should not question the Creator. Or as John D. Rockefeller said a century ...             Building Portsmouth: The neighborhoods & architecture of New Hampshire's oldest city Richard M Candee Portsmouth Advocates, Inc, 1992 Architectural historian Richard Candee explores Portsmouths evolution from coastal settlement to city of more than a dozen distinct neighborhoods. Illustrated with contemporary and historic photographs, prints, maps and drawings.             Heavy Weather and Hard Luck: Portsmouth Goes Whaling (Publication (Portsmouth Marine Society), No 24) ... Kenneth R. Martin Portsmouth Marine Society, the, 1998 When the Portsmouth Athenaeum acquired a rare log kept on Portsmouth whaling vessel Ann Parry, the Marine Society found Ken Martin, the former director of the Kendall Whaling Museum and author of several other whaling related books, to author the 24th publication in the series devoted to the maritime history of the Piscataqua river basin. In addition to the log in the Portsmouth Athenaeum, Martin was able to use logs and other material from ...             Haunted Portsmouth: Spirits and Shadows of the Past1 review Roxie J. Zwicker The History Press, 2007 Fantastic!!! I loved this book! I met Roxie and had her sign my copy. I read it cover to cover the same day! It was really informative and wonderfully written! I can't wait to read her next book!             The Placenames of Portsmouth (The Placenames of America) Nancy W Grossman Back Channel Press, 2008 The business of naming is as old as language itself. The names a town bestows on its rivers and river banks, streets, buildings and other landmarks provide a window into the soul of that town, through the history it chooses to celebrate. In 1623, the first settlers arrived in what would one day be known as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Native Americans in these parts already had a name for the swift flowing Piscataqua River. The settlers took ...             On the Spur of Speed: Continuing the Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, ...1 review J. E. Fender UPNE, 2005 Underappreciated Writer Let me tell you something, Fender might be the closest thing to a literary sea writer since Patrick O'Brian died. He has an uncanny ear for period dialogue and a way of plopping you right down in the middle of a historical story in a way that makes you feel as if you were actually there and could touch it. Ignore some of the snooty reviews about his earlier books. The guy is a treasure!             Portsmouth: An Old Town by the Sea (NH) (Making of America) Russell M. Lawson Arcadia Publishing, 2003             Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making3 reviews J. Dennis Robinson Strawbery Banke Museum/Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2008 Amazing Pictures! This is, as the title suggests, a history of a museum, but in addition it's a rather amazing story about how history reached out and touched the folks in a small New England town. It has a wonderful balance of lively prose and what seems to be hundreds of photographs, all beautifully reproduced, that really bring the people and the place to life. If the Thorton Wilder wrote books instead of ...             Portsmouth: Then & Now Constance S. Warren Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2001 Residents and visitors strolling through the streets of Portsmouth may wonder about the changes the city has seen over the years. Though much of Portsmouthís charm comes from an appearance that little has been altered, the community has transitioned over the centuries from rural farms to a bustling port to a modern New England city that carefully balances the best of old and new. ÝÝIn Then & Now: Portsmouth, authors William T. and Constance S. ...             Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage (NH) (Images of America) Nelson H. Lawry, Leo K. Polaski, ... Arcadia Publishing, 2004 Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor?s Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River?s naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navy?s first federal shipyards, the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, was protected by gun batteries, mainly at Fort Point, New Castle, New Hampshire. By the end of World War ...             ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY: In Association with the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth John Winton Conway Maritime Press, 2005 The Royal Navy occupies a central position in the history of Britain's island nation. In Shakespeare's words, the sea is the country's 'moat defensive', and the ships of the Royal Navy are the natural guardians of this barrier. As the 18th century lawyer Sir William Blackstone observed, 'the Royal Navy of England hath ever been its defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island'. In this ...              search for books architecture, association, building, calendar, contemporary, continuing, faithfully, football, geoffrey, hampshire, hardscrabble, heritage, histories, history, illustrated, matchmaker, military, neighborhoods, official, penelope, placenames, portsmouth, publication, revolution, society, strawbery, translated, travelling, virginia, whaling books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen magazines: Black Beauty and Hair leave a comment home  impressum - about us