The World of John Secker 1716-95, Quaker Mariner
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John Secker’s reminiscences of his life at sea provide a remarkable bottom-up account of the eighteenth-century maritime world. The son of a Quaker miller from North Walsham, Secker’s global sea-faring life took him not only across maritime Europe and North America, but also to Arabia, India, the South Seas and Pacific Ocean. His travels encompass themes as diverse as religion, overseas cultures, migration, slavery, navigation, weather, living conditions at sea, commerce and cargoes, navel engagements, discipline and press-gangs, piracy, insurance fraud, foreign imprisonment and Jacobite exiles.
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John Secker’s reminiscences of his life at sea provide a remarkable bottom-up account of the eighteenth-century maritime world.
The son of a Quaker miller from North Walsham, Secker’s global sea-faring life took him not only across maritime Europe and North America, but also to Arabia, India, the South Seas and Pacific Ocean.
His travels encompass themes as diverse as religion, overseas cultures, migration, slavery, navigation, weather, living conditions at sea, commerce and cargoes, navel engagements, discipline and press-gangs, piracy, insurance fraud, foreign imprisonment and Jacobite exiles.
Publication Details:
Publisher: Norfolk Record Society (8 September 2011)
Edited By: Andrew Hopper
Language: English
Hardcover: 194 pages
ISBN-10: 0955635748
ISBN-13: 9780955635748
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| Weight | 644 g |
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| Volume Number | LXXV |
