Sea dogs : life aboard an English galleon
Dean, James Seay, 1938-2022
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This is a seafarer's book that draws from the accounts of hundreds of sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century ocean voyages to convey the realities of everyday life aboard the galleons sailing between England and the West Indies and beyond. From jacktar to captain, what was life like aboard an Elizabethan ship? How did the men survive tropical heat, storms, bad water, rotten food, disease, poor navigation, shifting cargoes and enemy fire? Would a sailor return to Devon alive? With a whiff of oakum, salt spray and gunpowder, and in the words of Hawkyns, Drake and Ralegh, 'Sea Dogs' follows in the footsteps of the average sailor.
Main title:
Sea dogs : life aboard an English galleon / James Seay Dean.
Author:
Dean, James Seay, 1938-, author
Imprint:
Cheltenham : The History Press, 2022.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781803991818 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2562907
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