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Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence With the African Squadron, 1844-1846
C. Herbert Gilliland
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Description for Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence With the African Squadron, 1844-1846
Hardcover. A never-before-published journal about slave ship interdiction of Africa is set into historical context by a Naval Academy English professor. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JW; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 209 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
In 1844 the USS Yorktown sailed from New York, as part of the U.S. Navy’s newly established African Squadron, to interdict slave ships leaving the African coast. Aboard the sloop of war, Master’s Mate John C. Lawrence, an educated New Yorker in his early twenties, kept a private journal describing what happened during the extraordinary two-year voyage and his reactions to the events he witnessed. His frank and vivid observations take the reader into a world known to few. Through Lawrence’s eyes we see the men of the Yorktown in action and encounter many other nineteenth-century figures either engaged ... Read more
In 1844 the USS Yorktown sailed from New York, as part of the U.S. Navy’s newly established African Squadron, to interdict slave ships leaving the African coast. Aboard the sloop of war, Master’s Mate John C. Lawrence, an educated New Yorker in his early twenties, kept a private journal describing what happened during the extraordinary two-year voyage and his reactions to the events he witnessed. His frank and vivid observations take the reader into a world known to few. Through Lawrence’s eyes we see the men of the Yorktown in action and encounter many other nineteenth-century figures either engaged ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781591143208
SKU
V9781591143208
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Ref
99-3
About C. Herbert Gilliland
Charles Herbert Gilliland is a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve and a professor in the English department at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. While on active duty in the late 1960s, he served as communication officer on a destroyer and on destroyer staff, and in the mid-1980s returned to ... Read more
Reviews for Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence With the African Squadron, 1844-1846
...a worthwhile read."- Civil War Book Review; "...an overdue reminder of a little-known naval squadron."- Proceedings