I was blown away by the enormous amount of information about the area's character, history, and interesting places. The portraits of the people and places are facinating. This is a unique guide which I'm looking forward to soon explore on the ground.

Fabulous color photographs, readable, enjoyable, interactive and fun. Many times I drive through a beautiful backroads town and wonder about it's history, it's people, and it's sights. Now I have a guide that will answer my questions and more.

This book is packed with great information, beautiful pictures and fun little "games". WONDERFUL JOB Ms. Forbes!!!!!!!!!!!

Alexanian aims for a strange and deeply affecting digging beyond surfaces, similar to the work of an archeologist. If the painters' rendition of Gloucester's luminism is achieved by means of the brush adding color to the canvas, in Alexanian's photographs, mainly those which depict the sea and the land of Gloucester, the surface seems to have been etched, as though the photographer wanted to make way for the light to go through the image. In combination with his adherence to black and white only, this gravure-like quality turns many of Alexanian's photographs into intensely physical, concrete and often raw images. In these images activity is something which unites the natural world of water and rock, ice and trees, and leaves and snow with the world of men and women and children going about their business against the immensity of the landscape. Taline Voskeritchian, artsMedia Magazine

When I first saw Nubar Alexanian's tender and astute new book of photos, Gloucester Photographs, I had a sense of moving backwards in time. Images of clam diggers on mud flats,beach goers surrounding a giant sand sculpture in the shape of a deformed man, teenagers in the back of a rented limousine on prom night - all could be fifty years old, others even older. None are. Alexanian's new book and the show that commemorates it pay homage to a city and perhaps a way of life in decline: Gloucester is a community where people live near to their relatives, visit their neighbors, worship together. What could be stranger? One thing: Alexanian's treatment of fish, their eyes, their fins, their behead bodies being cleaned. In his fish photos Alexanian finds a metaphor of the people of Gloucester - endangered, atavistic, communal-and they're as riveting as they are forlorn.
Christopher Millis The Boston Phoenix 11/16/01

"A sense of serenity pervades Alexanian's work and, thus, the viewer. Here are moments plucked from narratives, some peaceful, others pulsing: stories we don't know, lives of which we are not part. But Alexanian gives us enough so that we can imagine the rest, as painful or jubilant or curious as our hearts believe the stories to be." Hayley Kaufman The Boston Globe Sunday Arts Section 11/11/01

I found an old copy of this book and read it a year ago. An incredible true story. I`m glad to see that it is available in paperpback again.

After having read The Perfect Storm, I was interested in other stories about the fishermen of the Gloucester area. This book fit the bill perfectly--just as harrowing as The Perfect Storm, but with a happier ending.

This is without a doubt the best seafaring story I have read since reading Joshua Slocum's account of his sailing adventures. Would make a wonderful film if produced by someone careful enough to make the details realistic.

The pictures really bring to life the city of Gloucester with all its tradition and history. Reynolds really captures in photos the people, the work and the culture of this close knit, tight community. A great book for both neighbors and visitors to the Northshore Boston area.

A beautiful slice-of-life look at the real town. Incredible photography and insightful text that truly give you a sense of the place so many have become enchanted with through "The Perfect Storm."

If you liked the book or movie "The Perfect Storm", this book is the perfect complement to learning about the Gloucester region. Reynolds' photographs capture the spirit of the people and places of Gloucester. The accompanying text with the photos provides some insight into the lives of the people who make this small New England fishing village their home.

This book about 43 Heros touches your soul . The author John Campbell did an oustanding job !......Julia Carpelli

THEY WERE OURS IS VERY 'POWERFUL' READING FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE/HAD SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE ARMED FORCES.

This is a beautifully written book about 43 soldiers killed in Vietnam .The book takes you into their lives , so you really get to know them and the people they left behind .Very heartwarming . It makes you laugh and cry .

The book's design is very appealing. The writing is good. I greatly enjoyed the "experience" the book gave me.

This is a first rate book about Kipling, Gloucester, and the writing of "Catain Courageous."

Anyone standing at the Fishermen's Memorial along Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts will be struck by two things. First, visitors always gravitate to the names at the very end--the familiar names of Capt. Billy Tyne and his five crewmates from the Andrea Gail, lost in The Perfect Storm in 1991. But those who linger are always astonished by the fact that there are more than five thousand other names here--sometimes hundreds of them lost during a single year in the 1800's, often from the same families. This book brings those 19th century years to life, providing a lively glimpse of the Gloucester fishing industry during its height, and a fitting memorial to all those "who go down to the sea in ships."

Joseph Garland reveals this history through the tale of one man--Giant Jim Pattillo, probably the most colorful and independent captain ever to command a Gloucester fishing vessel. A Novie who became a "whitewashed Yankee" when he became a U.S. citizen, Pattillo sailed between Georges Bank, Nova Scotia, and Cape Ann, Massachusetts, during the glory years of 1820 - 1870. Huge in size, immensely strong, and willing to take on anyone when he'd had enough to drink, Pattillo was a brawler who feared nothing and no one, a man who was willing to break the rules and even smuggle when it suited his purpose. Defying storms and all manner of danger, he also defied the restrictions the Crown placed on fishing around Nova Scotia--along with all the Crown's officers and enforcers.

Owner and master of his first fishing vessel in 1820, when he was just fourteen, Pattillo later fished for halibut, mackerel, herring, and cod in pinkeys, smacks, barks, sharpshooters, and schooners, all sailing vessels operating without any supplementary power. Navigation was challenging, to say the least, especially during ferocious storms at night, and the long list of names on the Gloucester memorial attests to the difficulty of keeping these vessels intact during the terrible Atlantic winters. Communication was almost non-existent, and on one occasion, when Pattillo and his crew returned to Gloucester in May, the town was stunned--it had already mourned their deaths, thinking they, like dozens of others, had perished in February.

Garland's impeccably researched tale is a can't-put-it-downer which deserves much more publicity! It's not an exaggeration to say that the insights you gain here about fishing and fishermen will forever change your perceptions of this heroic profession. Through Jim Pattillo, whose career spanned fifty tumultuous years, Garland provides a comprehensive historical account of the Gloucester - Nova Scotia fishing fleet, giving a context to more modern stories, such as The Perfect Storm, often thought to be unique. As a result, these modern accounts may now rightly assume their place as part of Gloucester's centuries-old, seafaring history, their crews members of the more than 5300-man fraternity of those "who go down to the sea in ships."

This is an excellent piece of scholarship and a very readable translation. No collection of primary sources of the period is complete without it.

We have girls and boys, ages 3-6 and they all love this book. We have spent more time reviewing pages, and our kids request it night after night -- which is okay with us as it's actually entertaining and fun to watch the kids look and find and prove they have better memories than we do!

We totally recommend this as staple for your home, and as a great gift idea!

This is my favorite of the Beatrix Potter books, and I probably read all of them as a child. It's ideal for a slightly older child. A very sweet story of a tailor, his cat, and a group of mice who save his business when he is too ill to work.