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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Weight644 g
Volume Number

LXXV