Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication year: 1986
ISBN: 0486251772
Description:
Firsthand accounts of thrilling adventures on the high seas — of surviving on an uninhabited island, of narrowly escaping capture in the Pacific Islands where Capt. James Cook was killed, encounters with savage natives in the South Seas and more. A vivid picture of life aboard the "tall ships" of a century and more ago.
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