Database:
Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
Adam Matthew

About this Database

Bringing together unique primary sources drawn from world-class maritime archives and heritage collections Life at Sea takes a socio-cultural approach, focusing on the individual experiences and personal narratives of seafarers. Through a broad range of sources, from journals and memoirs to ships’ logs and court records, the lives of ordinary seamen, merchants, whalers and pirates can be explored.


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This is the permanent URL for the database. It should be used in syllabi, lists of resources, and all other links provided to Johns Hopkins users. https://databases.library.jhu.edu/databases/proxy/JHU07425