Geoffrey M. Footner.  Books About Chesapeake Bay History, its Shipbuilders, and their sailing vessels



Books by the Footner Family

USS Constellation: From Frigate to Sloop of War
by Geoffrey M. Footner

Footner's New book is an investigative study of archival documents covering the 204 year history of the USS Constellation. [read more...]
Hardcover 7 X 10, 392 pp. $45.00 mailed and signed
Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner
by Geoffrey M. Footner

Footner relates the history of Chesapeake Bay in the 18th and 19th Centuries and the continuous and indispensable role played by schooners on the upper Bay. [read more...]
Hardcover 8 X 10, 265 pp. $39.95 mailed and signed
The Last Generation: A History of a Chesapeake Bay Shipbuilding Family
by Geoffrey M. Footner

This is teh story of five generations of a Chesapeake Bay shipbuilding family, four of whom built classic wooden vessels and the fifth, Clarence E. Davis, who built fine yachts.[read more...]
Hardcover, 193 pp. $37.50 mailed and signed
Rivers of the Eastern Shore: Seventeen Maryland Rivers
by Hulbert Footner

Hulbert Footner takes his reader on a leisurely voyage up and down the many rivers and creeks of Maryland's Eastern Shore, directly into the heart of the "land of pleasant living." [read more...]
Hardcover, 193 pp. $35.00 mailed
Sailor of Fortune: The Life and Adventures of Commodore Barney
by Hulbert Footner

Hulbert Footner's Biography of Joshua Barney is back in print. The Naval Institute Press has added it to its popular Classics of Naval Literature Series. [read more...]
Hardcover, 323 pp. $40.00 mailed and signed


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