Sea Struck

About W H. Bunting

W. H. BILL Bunting is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works of history including Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914; Steamers Schooners Cutters and Sloops: The Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins; A Day''s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920 (in two volumes); The Camera''s Coast: Historic Images of Sea and Shore in New England; Live Yankees; and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. With Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. he wrote An Eye for the Coast: The Monhegan and Maritime Photographs of Eric Hudson and Maine on Glass: The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography. Bill Bunting shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13 and later completed a 25000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine. Yachting historian publisher and antiquarian bookseller Llewellyn Howland III is the author most recently of No Ordinary Being: W. Starling Burgess Inventor Naval Architect Poet Aviation Pioneer and Master of American Design. Previous books include The New Bedford Yacht Club: A History and with coauthor Calvin Siegal On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier. Howland is a frequent contributor to WoodenBoat.