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| Title: | Through Water, Fire & Ice
: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 |
| Author: | Barry Gough |
| ISBN: | 1550025694 : 9781550025699 |
| Illustrations: | 25 b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 213 |
| Weight: | .34 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - February 2006 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Maritime history: Military history: Canada |
The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in a fiery explosion in Nottawasaga River in the last year of the War of 1812. This dramatic, soundly researched narrative depicts the reality of the men who sailed her while fighting a gritty war. Carrying the war to the enemy in hazardous ways, they fought against a powerful American foe, using stealth and daring to maintain the besieged Canadian position in the last armed struggle for the heartland of North America. The loss of the Nancy inspired generations to regard her as a symbol of devotion to king and country.
Introduction; The Old Northwest; A Shipbuilder's War; Aboard the Nancy; A Fiery End for the Nancy; Worsley's War; Finding the Bones of the Nancy: C H J Snider Postscript; Index.
