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Title: Clearly a Labor of Love
Review: Clearly a labor of love, this book is part history, part travelogue, part technical and all enjoyable. Mr. Matteson has been driving a tugboat around New York harbor since 1979. He must have been collecting stories and photographs of tugboats for nearly as long.This book begins with some early concepts of tugs that probably couldn't have been built, but which showed the need. From there it went to the first tugs that pulled sailing ships around the harbor. Then on to the Civil War when tugs were converted to gunboats.One surprising thing about this book s the quality of the photographs. Even pictures dating from the nineteenth century look almost new when compared with the quality of picture normally seen. The commentary that goes with the picture is often very insightful, pointing out things that we uninitiated would never notice.This is a fascinating book that describes just one aspect of New York history that isn't wekk known at all. It makes for very enjoyable reading.
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