Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870

by Margaret S. Creighton

Book Overview

This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484480
• ISBN13: 9780521484480
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"