The Abraham Lincoln of the Sea The Life of Andrew Furuseth

Santa Cruz, CA: Odin Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0963361104 . B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the front endpaper. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light rolling and wear to the top spine end and some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. "Andrew Furuseth (March 17, 1854 – January 22, 1938) of Åsbygda, Hedmark, Norway was a merchant seaman and an American labor leader. Furuseth was active in the formation of two influential maritime unions: the Sailors' Union of the Pacific and the International Seamen's Union, and served as the executive of both for decades. Furuseth was largely responsible for the passage of four reforms that changed the lives of American mariners. Two of them, the Maguire Act of 1895 and the White Act of 1898, ended corporal punishment and abolished imprisonment for deserting a vessel. Furuseth was credited as the key figure behind drafting and enacting the Seamen's Act of 1915, hailed by many as "The Magna Carta of the Sea" and the Jones Act of 1920 which governs the workers' compensation rights of sailors and the use of foreign vessels in domestic trade." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .