Sailors
English Merchant Seamen 1600-1750
Peter Earle
A lively historical exploration of the lives of English sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when England dominated the world in commerce and naval power.
Drawing on primary documents and diaries, Peter Earle explores every aspect of the sailor's life: conditions of service, wealth and possessions, life aboard ships, the perils of sea, discipline and punishment, sickness, desertion, mutiny and mortality, and the role of the sailor in wartime. Shipboard life was not all doom and gloom, storms and tyranny, and this books shows the complex relationship which Englishmen have had with the sea and wonders "how any man can be such a lubber to stay at land." "What learning and what quarry both to the general and the particular inquirer" (Spectator)
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About Peter Earle Peter Earle was Emeritus Reader in Economic History in the University of London. His books include A City Full of People, The Making of the English Middle Class, The World of Defoe and Monmouth's Rebels.
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