ECHOES OF PUGET SOUND. Fifty Years of Logging and Steamboating
by Birkeland, Captain Torger
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A very good copy in a very good dust jacket
- Seller
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Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Caldwell: Caxton, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This is the story of Torger Birkeland. As a lad he came to America with his family and started working as a whistle punk in logging camps at the age of eleven. At twenty he finally turned to sea. From then on his life was indivisibly linked with steamboating on Puget Sound. He took part in the extension of routes; he moved from vessel to vessel as the fleet increased in size; he knew promoters and owners and hundreds of commuters personally and he felt the excitement and intense competition of the rate wars. Then as highways were built and automobile transportation grew, Captain Birkeland saw the Mosquito Fleet disappear and the ferry fleets develop. He witnessed an entire era in the history of transportation. A graphic account of life on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. Map present in rear pastdown pocket. With as foreword by Joshua Green. Illustrated from photographs including a color frontispiece (depicting the ferry 'Evergreen' at Orcas Island.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ed Smith Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15361
- Title
- ECHOES OF PUGET SOUND. Fifty Years of Logging and Steamboating
- Author
- Birkeland, Captain Torger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - A very good copy in a very good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Caxton
- Place of Publication
- Caldwell
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Pacific Northwest history, Mosquito Fleet, Puget Sound, Logging, Steamboating, ferry boats, progress, early 1900s
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About the Seller
Ed Smith Books
Biblio member since 2009
Bainbridge Island, Washington
About Ed Smith Books
Ed Smith Books specializes in better condition modern literary first editions, signed books, photographic monographs, screen and theater related material and pop culture. We offer appraisals for books and photographs. We are located a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle, WA on Bainbridge Island. Since 1985 (ABAA since 1995). Two authors we specialize in are Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson. Open by appointment.
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