Daily life in the age of sail /
Age of sail
Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo.
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- xix, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series, 1080-4749 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-309) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. Seaports -- 2. Sea Lanes -- 3. Navigation -- 4. Hull Down on the Horizon -- 5. The Crew -- 6. Shipboard Environment -- 7. Pastimes -- 8. Women and the Sea -- 9. The Great Trading Fleets of Europe -- 10. The Art of War at Sea -- 11. Pirates and Privateers -- 12. The Age of Fighting Sail -- 13. The American Revolution -- 14. The Sea and the States -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.