Explores the inner workings of ships through detailed technical illustrations and text.
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…
"The first part of the Miscellany contains the correspondence of Simon Taylor, 1765-1775, on the management of the Jamaican estates of British M.P. Chaloner Arcedekne. These detailed and often highly picturesque letters form the most important collection of private correspondenc…
Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.
The boatbuilder, boat building, and the creation of socialities / Elena Maragoudaki -- Seafaring in the Mediterranean: intercultural interaction and loneliness on board / Giorgos Tsimouris -- A woman on a fishing boat: an ethnographic account of wilderness, familiarity and gende…
The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology. This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology. Specifically, the volume fi…
The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology. This is the subject matter of this volume, which falls within the broader, flourishing sub-field of maritime anthropology. Specifically, the volume fi…