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Hendrik Willem van Loon

304 pages,   195 x 150 mm,   ISBN - 1871948282

black & white illustrations

Price - S$23.00    Availability - in print

 
 

This Comprehensive, old-time favorite covers ships from 5000 B.C. to 1935 A.D., from the early ships of the River Nile and the Eastern Mediterranean, through the world of sea and sail, to the first steamships.
Van Loon’s conclusion is that, in spite of the romance of the sea, until the twentieth century, a sailor’s life was “nothing but one unending and grueling record of misery and pain, and hunger and thirst, and bodily abuse, a plain slice of hell on earth”.
He salutes those “men of vision”, who in spite of the dangers and discomforts of life at sea, were driven by their restless imagination to pursue distant horizons.

 
 

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