Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats
by Peter A. Robson; Betty Keller
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1550172751
- ISBN 13
- 9781550172751
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Canada: Harbour Publishing Co.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550172751 . 144 pages. Profusely illustrated with excellent colour photos. "Never has the towboat's central place in the coastal landscape been more forecefully brought to light than in this masterful photographic study... This ruggedly handsome book explores the history of West Coast towboats from the days of the Hudson's Bay Company's ungainly sidewheeler S.S. Beaver to the space-age tractor tugs of today that can turn on a dime and have so much power they can cave in a ship's side." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats West Coast Tug Boats Pictorial Works .
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 828H1489
- Title
- Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats
- Author
- Peter A. Robson; Betty Keller
- Illustrator
- Douglas, Robb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1550172751
- ISBN 13
- 9781550172751
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 1550172751, Skookum, Tugs:, British, Columbia's, Working, Tugboats, West, Coast, Tug
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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