Life at sea : seafaring in the Anglo-American maritime world, 1600-1900

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Bringing together unique primary sources drawn from world-class maritime archives and heritage collections Life at Sea takes a sociocultural approach, focusing on the individual experiences and per...

Bringing together unique primary sources drawn from world-class maritime archives and heritage collections Life at Sea takes a sociocultural approach, focusing on the individual experiences and personal narratives of seafarers. Through a broad range of sources, from journals and memoirs to ships’ logs and court records, the lives of ordinary seamen, merchants, whalers and pirates can be explored. This resource offers exciting new insights into three centuries of the Anglo-American maritime world.

"This material includes the following document types: artwork and sketchbooks, correspondence, court martial records, examination of pirates, impressment and regulations, journals and diaries, legal records, logbooks, medical journals, memoirs, narratives, newspapers, objects, orderbooks and regulations, petitions, prize and instance records, ship's musters, ship's papers"--Introduction page.

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