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Tragic History Of The Sea
C.R. Boxer
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Description for Tragic History Of The Sea
Paperback. Editor(s): Boxer, C. R. Num Pages: 528 pages, 6 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1QS; HBG; HBLH; HBTM; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
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Compelling stories of shipwreck, adventure, and death on the high seas, now back in print.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of great colonial expansion, marked by a mercantile frenzy of ships carrying merchants, aristocrats, missionaries, sailors, Inquisitors, botanists, and statesmen pursuing the spoils of empire. Among the narratives that chronicled these voyages, those of the Portuguese are...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638901
SKU
V9780816638901
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About C.R. Boxer
C. R. Boxer (1904-2000) was an expert on the perils of the high seas. During his colorful twenty-three-year career in the military, he served as an interpreter and intelligence officer in the Far East, where he was imprisoned by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945. A prolific writer, autodidact, and bon vivant, he was also a celebrated collector of rare...
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