A novel about Nova Scotia's maritime trade
Captain Salvation is a little-known novel of Maritimers at sea, now brought back into print in this new addition to Formac's Fiction Treasures collection. It is an exciting tale of a young reprobate who works his way up from ableseaman, to mate, skipper and then a ship-owner. His strength and intelligence pull him through the violent life aboard ship. Finally, shipwrecked off Cape Horn, he has to face his demons.

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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