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Adventures, blizzards, and coastal calamities, Edward Rowe Snow

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Adventures, blizzards, and coastal calamities

Edward Rowe Snow

A collection of tales of the sea and stories from New England history by master story-teller Edward Rowe Snow

The blizzard of '78 -- Dighton Rock -- Dungeon Rock -- Gwinett, hanged but lived -- John I. Snow -- Minot's Light -- Susanna Rowson -- A Harvard man dies -- The wreck of the Atlantic -- Joshua Slocum -- A dip in the bay -- Chevalier Saint Sauveur -- Ile Derniere -- The conquest of Massachusetts Bay -- Piracy out of Boston in 1875 -- The world's greatest sea mystery -- The Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde of Boston -- The Constitution -- Arrival in Boston -- Harvard Library -- Boston's unique cemeteries -- The loss of the Thomas W. Lawson -- The Matador of Gloucester -- Grace Darling -- A ride in a haystack -- Index