Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail

by Daniel Vickers (Author), Daniel Vickers (Author), Vince Walsh (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2007

  $40.63

  While historical and fictional accounts have tended to stress the exceptional circumstances or psychological compulsions that drove men to sea, this book shows how normal a part of life seafaring was for those living near a coast before the mid - nineteenth century. It offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period.