Port Townsend: an Illustrated History of Shanghaiing, Shipwrecks, Soiled Doves and Sundry Souls by Thomas Camfield ~ Puget Sound, Washington

Title: Port Townsend: an Illustrated History of Shanghaiing, Shipwrecks, Soiled Doves and Sundry Souls

Author: Thomas Warner Camfield

Description: Inscribed by author on title page. Handling wear and minor soiling on front cover. Tear to front cover repaired. Edges of text block yellowed, though pages are clean and white. Faint smoky odor. Illustrated. 480 pages. 10 x 7.5 inches.

An extensive compendium of Port Townsend history, documenting numerous persons and pioneers, buildings and homes, city blocks, businesses, maritime industry, infrastructure, civic culture, law and crime, and notable events in the early history and development of this Puget Sound port city. Illustrated with numerous historic photographs. Includes an index.

Thomas Warner Camfield (b. 1929) is a longtime resident of Port Townsend and has been employed most of his life at the Port Townsend Leader newspaper. He has also published several family genealogies and a second volume of local history, titled Port Townsend: The City That Whiskey Built.


Binding: Softcover
Condition: VG-

Publisher: Ah Tom Publishing
Place: Port Townsend, Wash.
Year: 2000

Keywords: Jefferson County, Washington, Washington state, pioneers, Puget Sound,