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Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-04 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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Language: en
Pages: 339
Pages: 339
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-30 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-12 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonis
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-29 - Publisher: Vintage
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: UPNE
First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.