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Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part I
| Content Provider | Librivox |
|---|---|
| Author | Wood, William |
| Abstract | No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks and canoes the Eskimos and Indians used before the white man came, and use today; of the small craft moved by oar and sail that slowly displaced those moved only by the paddle; of the sailing vessels proper, and how they plied along Canadian waterways, and on all the Seven Seas; of the steamers, which shed so much forgotten lustre on Canadian enterprise; of the teeming fisheries which the far-seeing Lord Bacon rightly thought 'richer treasures than the mines of Mexico and of Peru'; of the Dominion's trade and government relations with nations that 'have their business in great waters'; and, finally, of that guardian Navy, without whose freely given care the 'water history' of Canada could never have been made at all. (Summary modified from the text) |
| Related Links | http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24808 http://archive.org/details/all_afloat_1504_librivox |
| File Format | MP2 / MPA / MP3 |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | nonfiction history |
| Alternative Title | Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part I |
| Content Type | Audio |
| Resource Type | Audiobook |
