Journals of Captain Edward Baker, 1846–1895

Eastern Michigan University

Publisher: The Duxbury Rural and History Society

Additional information at http://www.worldcat.org/title/proud-and-fiery-spirit-journals-of-captain-edward-baker-1846-1895-memoirs-of-crooked-lane-du-xbury-and-marshfield-massachusetts/oclc/866716497

Published as A Proud and Fiery Spirit: Journals of Captain Edward Baker, this volume is a selective edition of excerpts from the journals of an American mariner from Crooked Lane and Duxbury, Massachusetts. A farm boy who worked the field of neighbor Daniel Webster, Baker went to sea as a young man, rising to become a ship master, making 21 voyages at the height of the Clipper era. An account of life in a rural seaside village in 19th century America.

Complete in one volume.