"In Search of the Unknown", Book I, by Robert W. Chambers

Chapters 1-5: The Harbour-Master

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0:11:30 Chapter 2
0:20:09 Chapter 3
0:28:32 Chapter 4
0:43:30 Chapter 5
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It is not clear where Black Harbour is supposed to be. It is going to be a fictional place name, but my best estimate based on information provided is somewhere in Maine or New Brunswick.

The lords of Yvetot bore the title of king from the 15th until the middle of the 16th century, their petty monarchy being popularized in one of Béranger's songs (The Good Little King of Yvetot).

A cat boat is a sailboat with a single sail on a single mast set well forward in the bow of a very beamy and (usually) shallow draft hull.

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: The Bronx Park Zoological Gardens Aviary, circa 1900 (New York State Archives. Education Dept. Division of Visual Instruction. Instructional lantern slides, ca. 1856-1939. Series A3045-78, No. 378, Call No. D47_NC28)

Mike Pennington / Great Auk (Pinguinis impennis) specimen, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

Chapter 2: A logging train in Jackman Maine by Ernie Paciorkowski

Chapter 3: "Black's Harbour_NB_Panorama_06" by mrbanjo1138, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)

Chapter 4: "Anstey's Cove, Torquay, England" Print no. "10712".; Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J-foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.; Forms part of: Views of England in the Photochrom print collection. I know it's England and not New England. I didn't know what to do for this one, I couldn't find any suitable image with suitable usage rights, so this will just have to serve as a stand-in for Halyard's house.

Chapter 5: "The Cat Boat" by Edward Hopper, 1922

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