Bibliograph

Tales from the Great Lakes, based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"

Type

Label

Tales from the Great Lakes, based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tales from the Great Lakes

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"

Summary

For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world. C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider's writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider's stories, adds some of his own

Target audience

adult

Classification