Story of Maine in 112 Objects - Couverture rigide

Fishman, Bernard P

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0884483770 ISBN 13 : 9780884483779

Editeur : Tilbury House, 2018

Synopsis

It is a story covering 395 million years, a story told with a walrus skull and fossils, tourmaline and spear points, mammoth tusks and bone fishhooks, Norse coins and caulking irons, militia flags and survey stakes, treaty documents and wooden tankards, a temperance banner and a locomotive, Joshua Chamberlain's pistol and a cod tub trawl, a Lombard log hauler and a woman's WWII welding outfit, L. L. Bean boots and German POW snowshoes, and many more objects from the museum's collections. Short narratives written by museum curators are woven around each item—including photos of related objects—and the ensemble has been honed, polished, and introduced by museum director Bernard Fishman. This is a book that historians and Maine residents and visitors will delve into again and again, unearthing new treasures with each reading.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

BERNARD P. FISHMAN has been an Egyptologist, an academic, and the director of five museums, including, since 2012, the Maine State Museum. He is a native New Yorker with honors history degrees from Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, whose family operated businesses in Maine for over 40 years. He has written extensively on archaeological, historical, and museum-related subjects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tilbury House
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0884483770
• ISBN 13: 9780884483779
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas