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THE LUCKY CAPTAIN ? 2ND EDITION IBD

WILLIAM D. TURNER
07 / 2021
9781737643609
Inglés

Sinopsis

The first family named Dow in America landed in 1637, escaping from the persecution of the English kings and the Anglican Church as a part of the âÇÖgreat migrationâÇÖ begun by the Pilgrims 17 years earlier.Two hundred and seventy years later, descendent George W. Dow captained the only seven-masted sailing vessel ever built-theáThomas W. Lawson-on its maiden cross-Atlantic voyage. Encountering unfathomable weather, and monstrous winds, tides, and waves as it approached the English coast, theáLawsonáslipped her anchors and sunk among treacherous rocks in the Scilly Isles. The schooner, its cargo, and 16 sailors were lost, but âÇÖluckyâÇÖ Captain Dow and his engineer were heroically saved from the rocks the next day.This story is an account of how Captain Dow was the culmination of the Dow familyâÇÖs evolution from immigrants in a primitive, 17th century foreign land, to seafaring as an occupation, as a new United States and global economy began to emerge. And, his life also was the last of the DowâÇÖs New England-based, sea faring existence, as the CaptainâÇÖs descendants-already five generations and counting-spread from Boston to homes, careers and lives far-flung from Maine and New England.

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