A tale of one boy's life in the world of deep-sea fishing on an ocean that is both tender and cruel
First published in 1914, Blue Water is set in the early 1900s and traces the adventures of "Shorty" Westhaver from boyhood to young manhood in the dangerous and, often, tragic world of the Grand Banks fishery.

FREDERICK WILLIAM WALLACE (1886-1958) was born in Scotland and moved to Montreal in the early 1900s. Thrilled with everything about the sea, he sailed on many vessels as a journalist, sailing to the Banks, and learning about all aspects of the fisheries.Canadian Author

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A professor of history at Mount Saint Vincent University, M. Brook Taylor has become an expert in the banks fishery and schooners at the turn of the 20th century. He is the curator of an exhibition at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Halifax, Nova Scotia) that presents Frederick William Wallace's photographs to the public for the first time. He has given lectures about Frederick William Wallace in Canada and Japan, and has been published in the Journal of Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. In A Camera on the Banks, Taylor presents the story of a fishery on the brink of change and the pioneering photojournalist who documented it so lovingly.

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