New York: Macmillan, 1935. Hardcover first edition - The story of four generations of a seafaring New England family from young Silas Crockett prospering in the Canton trade in 1830 to his great grandson Silas a century later who longed to study medicine, but - in the midst of the Depression - wound up going to work in the herring factory instead. Illustrated endpapers. 404 pp.