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Poor Jack : the perilous history of the merchant seaman /

Drawing upon a mass of contemporary, anecdotal material spanning four millennia, Ronald Hope provides a realistic and non-sentimentalised social history of the merchant seaman in the western world.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hope, Ronald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Chatham Pub., ©2001.
Subjects:
Merchant marine > History.
Seafaring life.
Marine marchande > Histoire.
Vie en mer.
Merchant marine
Seafaring life
Geography.
History
Description
Summary:Drawing upon a mass of contemporary, anecdotal material spanning four millennia, Ronald Hope provides a realistic and non-sentimentalised social history of the merchant seaman in the western world.
Physical Description:376 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-367) and index.
ISBN:1861761619
9781861761613