This is for anyone with a love of maritime history: a fabulous round-up, in Aeon, of some of the early accounts of life as a seafarer during the golden age of sail.
The lives (and loves) of maritime celebrities such as Admiral Nelson, Ferdinand Magellan and Captain Cook are well known; the early coughs of globalisation via the buccaneering and brutal British and Dutch East India companies have been equally well …
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