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Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book to document thoroughly the lifestyle and collective experience of the many thousands of black sailors during this time period. Numerous illustrations in the form of original charts, tables, crew lists, and customs records support the text. In a penetrating study, the author unveils the enormous contribution made prior to the Civil War to the nation's economy, prestige, and power by black Americans."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were transformed by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic, but his mother, an avid sailor, liked the idea. John was urged not to tell the crew that his father was a senator. The job ticket read "45 days from Camden, N.J., to the Mediterranean on the Rose City," a supertanker. But the orders changed, and 45 days became four months--across the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction."--Jacket.
36) Mary Peters
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
English
Description
The story of the daughter of a Maine sea captain, born on a merchant ship off Singapore and for fifteen years brought up and educated on her father's vessel. Her later life is spent in a little Maine village where her sterling traits come to fine fruition.