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High-Water Cargo by Edith Dorian Along the Delaware and Raritan Canal 1854 SoftC
High-Water Cargo by Edith Dorian
Along the Delaware and Raritan Canal 1854
Soft Cover
Copyright 1950, 1965
224 pages
CONTENTS
1 The Lockkeeper's Son
2 Danger on the Wharf
3 At the Indian Queen
4 Adam Huyler, Privateer
5 On the Banks
6 The Ibis and the Alligator
7 Shoring
8 Crew Trouble
9 Revenue Men
io Dreams Crumble
11 The Alligator Again
12 A String of Rubies
13 Rain at Last
14 Flood!
15 Patrol Duty
16 Prowler in the Night
17 Heinie
18 Set a Thief to Catch a Thief
19 Mop Up
20 Winner Take All Author's Note
Selected Reading
About the Author
HIGH-WATER CARGO
By EDITH M. DORIAN
Illustrated by Forrest Orr
In 1854 the bustling life of the Dutch town of New Brunswick, New Jersey, centered on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, the busiest inland waterway in the country. Dirck Van Arsdalen, sixteen, had learned the intricacies of the locks so thoroughly from his father, Jacobus, who was the lockkeeper, that he could take charge himself whenever necessary.
But as he helped his father and watched the widening of the twenty-year old canal, he dreamed of studying at Rutgers College. More than anything else he wanted to become an engineer and build bridges. This made no sense to Jacobus, but the proprietor of the Indian Queen Tavern, who gave Dirck a job, understood, and so did pretty Maddy Brandt, who had tagged at his heels since they were mere children.
Obstacles aplenty pave the cobblestone streets before a wholly satisf y-ing conclusion is reached; and mystery, warm family relationships, realistic dialogue, contagious humor, and authentic historical background make absorbing reading in this action-filled story.
Forrest Orr, one of the most distinguished painters in the country, has enlivened the colorful tale further with his drawings. Many of his backgrounds were done from contemporary paintings and engravings.
Edith M. Dorian is a native of New Jersey. High-Water Cargo was her first full-length book and this is a reissue, with additional material, and a new map. When this book first appeared, Mrs. Dorian was already an experienced writer of short stories, articles, and reviews. She was writing by the time she graduated from Barringer High School in Newark, New Jersey, and several stories had been published before her graduation from Smith College. She taught English and American Literature for a. number of years at Douglass College: Rutgers, The State University, and acquired her master's degree from Columbia University.
Mrs. Dorian has an impressive list of books since High-Water Cargo, both fiction and non-fiction, and is currently working on new ones. Each is marked by her characteristically lively style and meticulous research into historical background. (For more detailed biographical material, see About the Author, pp. 223-224. )
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