Captain Drew's World
Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail
$128.74
- Hardcover
704 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2026
Summary
From 1877 to 1889, as Captain John H. Drew plied the world’s oceans aboard the full-rigged ship Sea Witch of Boston, he wrote lengthy dispatches to the Boston Journal. He was a man of action and intellect who crafted closely observed, empathic prose, well-salted with dry wit. Drew described his current and past voyaging in various trades, including the Boston “Straits” trade, the cotton and emigrant trade, the Cape Horn grain trade, the East India ice trade, the Far East case oil trade, the A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781648432262 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1648432263 |
| Author: | William H. Bunting |
| Publisher: | Texas A & M University Press |
| Imprint: | Texas A & M University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series |
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About The Author
William H. Bunting
W. H. Bunting is an award-winning maritime historian and author of Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships and Sea Struck. He also edited Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852–1914, among other titles.
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