Blow the Man Down

A rousing tale of the New England coast, following seafaring men, rivalry, and romance amid the ships and harbors of Maine. Holman Day, a chronicler of Yankee life, fills the story with salt air, tough characters, and local color. Brisk and warm-hearted, it captures a vanished world of coastal shipping and small-town New England. An enjoyable slice of early-twentieth-century American popular fiction from a writer who loved the people and landscape of his native state.