Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail - Paperback

by Daniel Vickers (Author), Vince Walsh (Author)

Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier.

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Author Biography

Daniel Vickers is the head of the department of history at the University of British Columbia. His previous book, Farmers and Fisherman: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, won the John Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association and the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vince Walsh is an independent scholar and project coordinator at the Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland.