Images of Lunenburg County

by Peter Barss

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771010877
• ISBN13: 9780771010873
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Images of Lunenburg County, a Classic

Probably the best book ever to come out of the South Shore of Nova Scotia, this book was compiled in the late 1970's by Peter Barss, a local photographer. The inshore fishery was coming to an end at that time, and Peter tape-recorded the tales of his old neighbours and friends, rendering them faithfully in the local dialect, and illustrated them with his own pictures of the slips and sheds, boats and buoys, but most remarkably the faces of the men who worked the sea handlining for a tough living. This era was passing then, is just a memory now, but we have Peter's book to keep it alive.