Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and James McNeill Whistler. A red-headed surgeon with a temper, a brownstone practice, and the neighbors who put up with him. Richmond was a Congregational minister's daughter from upstate New York who wrote some thirty novels of domestic life; Red Pepper Burns was her one enduring character, and the operating scenes are done with a respect for the work that survives the romance around it. Fifty-eight plates of paintings by Luke Fildes and Thomas Eakins, among others, reproduce the harbors, fishing crews and working lives of the period 1850 to 1924, the world this country practice belonged to.