Reducere. Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept shi...
griffin, carti, carte straina, medicine & nursing, medicine: general issues
Reducere. The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at s...
cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences
Reducere. DescriptionChatham Sea Captains in the Age of Sail chronicles the lives and adventures of twenty-five men who traveled the seas from the eighteenth...
history press library editions, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitfield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in th...
cumberland house publishing, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Praise for BROADSIDES""Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immor...
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Reducere. A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary eraThe Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of ...
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Reducere. September 11, 2001 was a black day in U.S. history. Amid the chaos, sea captains and crews raced by boat to the tragic Manhattan scene. Nearly 500,...