(Mobile library) Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives
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| #2948528 in Books | 2011-11-24 | 2011-10-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .83 x5.37 x8.46l,.97 | File Name: 0486251772 | 432 pages
||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A real gem|By S. Clark|This was one of the best books I ever read. Very gripping and true-to-life adventure stories.
The nautical jargon gets a little hard to follow sometimes and the part about the wars between the natives on the Tonga islands was kind of tedious, but other than that it was a totally outstanding collection of stories.
Oh, and the introdu
"On March 19th, 1790, I sailed on board the ship Massachusetts, Captain Job Prince, commander, bound on a voyage to Canton in China. . . . She excited a considerable sensation for she was the largest merchant vessel built at that time in the United States." Thus begins the narrative of John Bartlett of Boston, one of five fascinating true stories in this thrilling anthology of adventure on the high seas, edited by Captain Elliot Snow of the United St... [PDF.bi38] Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives Rating: 3.67 (654 Votes)
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