Drawing on records of several thousand seamen & their voyages from Salem, Massachusetts, 'Young Men and the Sea' offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period.
"Drawing on records of several thousand seamen and their voyages from Salem, Massachusetts, Young Men and the Sea offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period. In what sort of families were sailors raised? When did they go to sea? What were thei…
"Drawing on records of several thousand seamen and their voyages from Salem, Massachusetts, Young Men and the Sea offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period. In what sort of families were sailors raised? When did they go to sea? What were thei…