Delano's Voyages of Commerce and Discovery

By Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves

Adventure-filled journals of FDR's seafaring relative.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936399562
• ISBN13: 9780936399560
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful but abridged...

The only reason I gave this review four stars instead of five is that this volume is abridged. It is missing a great deal of material about actual shiphandling and navigation in the period, including detailed descriptions of harbors. It is worth seeking out a used volume of the original.

A new and wondrous world seen by an ever-curious mariner

Fans of Patrick O'Brian will love Amasa Delano's Voyages. Delano's travels took him through the same uncharted waters and touched the same exotic lands as O'Brian's intrepid Captain Jack Aubrey and his ever-curious companion Stephen Maturin, but with a difference: O'Brian's heroes live in fiction; Delano was for real.Seldom have I read a seafarer's account with so many varied and interesting observations about the world through which he traveled. Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and other professional naturalists wrote a good deal about the flora and fauna they studied, of course, but Delano's curiosity takes him everywhere and informs the reader about an amazing range of contemporary details of life and human behavior.

This is a captivating account of daring sea adventures.

Berkshire House Publishers and Eleanor Seagraves have performed a service of great value in resurrecting this account of sea voyages that played a critical role in establishing America's place in the field of maritime commerce and exploration. Truth can be stranger than fiction. Delano's extradordinary exploits are every bit as fascinating as the tales told by Patrick O'Brian and will appeal to the same readership. Handsomely illustrated.