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Thread #92431 Message #1773825
Posted By: Charley Noble
01-Jul-06 - 10:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sailor Town (Cicely Fox Smith)
Subject: RE: sailortown
Another book that I've found interesting is THE BARBARY COAST by Herbert Ashbury. Lacking a working time machine, Ashbury does a good job of recreating San Francisco's old sailortown, and without the risk of being bumped on the head, plundered, and dumped in the harbor.
C. Fox Smith did several books on sailortown, including SAILOR TOWN, ANCHOR L and SHIP ALLEY. They are full of wonderful detail, but lack a level of Hugill's participant observation generally unavailable to even an adventurist female of the 1920's.
Cheerily,
Charley Noble