The master mariner: Book one: Running proud
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0330258451
ISBN 13
9780330258456
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1979
Publisher
Pages
512
Description
(In this, Nicholas Monsarrat's masterpiece, Lawe represents the spirit of maritime exploration and fortitude; his life is the thread stringing together a long history of nautical adventure. Written in two volumes, the first of which appeared in 1978, the story encompasses the full extent of maritime development, beginning with Sir Francis Drake abandoning a game of bowls to fight the great crescent of the Spanish fleet, to the opening in 1960 of the St Lawrence Seaway, the farthest penetration of land ever made by ocean-going sailors) - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
