Title, Description & Price

Becoming Cape Cod, Creating a Seaside Resort
James C. O’Connell

The first book to tell the history of Cape Cod's development as a vacation mecca. This book traces Cape Cod's resort history from its discovery by Henry David Thoreau before the Civil War to the present day. It is lavishly illustrated with rare historical postcards.
Paperback: 192 pages, Publisher: New Hampshire, $20

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Cape Cod Bay, A History or Salt & Sea
Theresa Mitchell Barbo

This skillful narrative weaves together the natural and cultural histories of the bay, highlighting some of the region's diverse milestones- from the drafting of the Mayflower Compact in 1620 to the establishment of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant 350 years later.
Paperback: 128 pages, Publisher: The History Press, $22

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Cape Cod’s Oldest Shipwreck, The Desperate Crossing of the Sparrow-Hawk
Mark Wilkins

In 1626-27, the ever-changing coastline of Cape Cod caused the Sparrow-Hawk to run aground, forcing the passengers to abandon their ship and take up residence in Plymouth Colony. Revealed by the tides over two hundred years later, the wreckage was pillaged by local scavengers and put on display in Boston.
Paperback: 128 pages, Publisher: The History Press, $20

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The Finest Hours, The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. The freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. In the early hours of February 18, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying predicament. Not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board at the Atlantic’s mercy. The Finest Hours is the true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships. Not all survived, but considering the odds, it’s a miracle that any came home to tell their tales at all.
Hardcover: 224 pages, Publisher: Scribner, $25

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H. K. Cummings Revisited, 1887-1905
Snow Library

Images from the collection, Craine Gallery, Snow Library, Orleans, MA.
Paperback; Publisher: Snow Library, $10

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Memoires of a Cape Codder
Stephen A. Hopkins

Local Hopkins decendant Stephen Hopkins relates tales of growing up in and around Orleans and Cape Cod.
Paperback, Publisher: Cove Island, $5

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The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod:
The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story
Theresa Mitchell Barbo

On February 18, 1952, four Coast Guardsmen set out from Station Chatham in a 36' motor lifeboat to locate the mortally wounded T2 tanker Pendleton and rescue its crew during a Nor'easter. All four men knew the odds of finding the Pendleton and surviving the storm were slim. With only a small engine and a single spotlight, Bernie Webber, Ervin Maske, Andy Fitzgerald and Richard Livesey-found the hulk of the Pendleton and rescued thirty seamen, bringing the survivors safely to shore.
Paperback: 126 pages, Publisher: History Press, $20

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Quahogging Out of Rock Harbor 1890—1930
Warren S. Darling

Quahogging Out of Rock Harbor 1890—1930, $3

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Rescue CG36500
Orleans Historical Society

Paperback, Publisher: Lower Cape Publishing, $5

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The Saltworks of Historic Cape Cod:
A Record of the Nineteenth Century Economic Boom in Barnstable County
William P. Quinn

Bill Quinn captures the aura and drama of colonial America in this highly illustrated volume about a forgotten American industry.
Hardcover: 247 pages, Publisher: Parnassus Imprints, $20

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Shipwrecks Around Cape Cod
William P. Quinn

Bill Quinn has written eight books about Cape Cod, mostly ones with a nautical theme. This was the first, and arguably the best. Filled with his own photographs taken from the shore and the air, he is equally adept at unearthing rare old prints of ship wrecks of long ago. A must buy for Cape Cod enthusiasts.
Paperback: 240 pages, Publisher: Lower Cape Pub Co, $25

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Shipwrecks Around New England
William P. Quinn

A chronology of marine accidents and disasters from Grand Manan to Sandy Hook
Paperback: 240 pages, Publisher: Lower Cape Pub Co, $15

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Sea Yarns, Being the Reminiscences of Capt. Joshua N. Taylor

Paperback, Publisher: Orleans Historical Society $3

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Target Ship in Cape Cod Bay
Noel W. Beyle

A narrative of hysterical history and fabulous folklore about the old Liberty Ship SS James Longstreet
Paperback: 112 pages, Publisher: First Encounter Press, $5

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That Quail Robert
Margaret Stanger

The perennially bestselling and acclaimed classic of the little bird who preferred human companionship to other quail. Written by former Orleans resident, Margaret Stanger was also a benefactress of the OHS.
Paperback: 128 pages, Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, $10

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What Should I Do? Six True Adventures from Orleans History
June Chandler Fletcher

Paperback: 56 pages, Publisher: Snow Library Publications, $5

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Where Sea & History Meet
Russell R. Jalbert

4,000 Years of life in Orleans
Paperback, Publisher: Orleans Historical Society, $5

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