Britain and the ocean road
Friel, Ian2023
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'Britain and the Ocean Road' uses firsthand research and unconventional interpretations to take a fresh look at British maritime history in the age of sail. The human stories of eight shipwrecks serve as waypoints on the voyage, as it explores how and why Britain became a global sea power. Each chapter has people at its heart - sailors, seafaring families, passengers, merchants, pirates, explorers, and many others. The narrative encompasses an extraordinary range of people, ships and events, such as a bloody maritime civil war in the 13th century, a 17th-century American teenager who stepped from one ship to another - and into a life of piracy, a British warship that fought at Trafalgar (on the French side), and the floating hell of a Liverpool slave-ship, sunk in the year before the slave trade was abolished.
Main title:
Britain and the ocean road / Ian Friel.
Author:
Friel, Ian, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2023.
Collation:
208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399000505 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2422708