1824675
9780486256849
Abundantly illustrated pictorial history of mid-19th-century passenger ships, with their hopeful, opportunity-seeking human cargoes. Gripping tales of stowaways, shipwrecks, dramatic rescues, on-board epidemics, extreme hardships, self-reliant captains, heavy-fisted mates, and rough crews.Basil Lubbock is the author of 'The Western Ocean Packets', published 1988 under ISBN 9780486256849 and ISBN 0486256847.
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