The Tragic History of the Sea

By: Boxer, C. R.

Book Overview

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 unequaled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081663890X
• ISBN13: 9780816638901
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"