About
Bear Me Into Freedom: The Talbot County of Frederick Douglass
by Jeffrey C. McGuiness
To fully understand Frederick Douglass, it is essential to have a pictorial sense of the unusual place that gave rise to one of America’s most consequential figures. Bear Me Into Freedom: The Talbot County of Frederick Douglass provides an important new perspective into the early years of America’s most famous freedom fighter.
PUBLISHER
St. Michaels Museum at St. Mary’s Square,
St. Michaels, MD
SOFTCOVER
284 pages
ISBN: 979-8-218-03167-1
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER: 2022912131
PUBLICATION DATE: November 1, 2022
DIMENSIONS: 10 by 10.25 by 0.7 in
BOOK SPECS:
9x12 oblong | smyth sewn | casebound
wrapped case with soft touch film laminate and spot UV coating | printed end sheets
Text and cover wrap were printed 4cp plus an additional "touch" plate of dense black, to add depth and contrast to the many archival black and white images contained within.
Printing done by Ironmark in Annapolis Junction, MD.
About
This book was a special project with the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.
----------------------------------------------------------The thrill of log canoe racing—four to 18 people in choreographed motion, balancing the strain on the rig, calling out puffs and lifts, eyeing the competition, sailing low on the water with enough horsepower to exceed theoretical hull speed in optimum conditions—is an experience seldom equaled, and one that is explored in a new book, Tradition, Speed and Grace: Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoes, being released in May 2018 by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md.
The hard-cover 150-page book is written by John C. North II, and includes more than 140 color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs. In Tradition, Speed and Grace, North recounts his perspective on the sport from his 70 years of log canoeing. The book also includes individual profiles of the remaining 23 canoes in the fleet, along with a chronology of log canoe racing and line drawings of canoes from the CBMM collection.
Tradition, Speed and Grace recently won the Maryland Historical Society’s Brewington Book Award. Read more here.
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