Chester BrighamWriting from his home on Goose Cove in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Chester Brigham begins each book of nonfiction with an individual or an event. Then he pursues significant linkages wherever they may lead. He takes the reader to the Arctic in the 192's and '30s in the company of legendary Captain Bob Bartlett. To packet ship voyages shuttling between the Cape Verde Islands and New England. To lower Manhattan and East Gloucester with the artistry of John Sloan. To the England of T.S. Eliot with his nostalgia for a boy sailing out of Gloucester harbor to islands down east. To sputtering wood-and-fabric Coast Guard seaplanes winging low along Atlantic shores in pursuit of Prohibition rum runners. Gloucester's maritime and arts history ranges far and wide, and Brigham's books trace the routes to unexpected destinations. Read More Read Less