Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Gough, Barry | Copyright information

Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail. By Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh. (New Haven, Con. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 336. $35.00.)

The authors of this book take maritime history in a new direction with this study. Salem, Massachusetts, home of great seaborne commerce, especially to the South Seas, Southeast Asia, and China in the days of the opening Pacific trades of the eighteenth century, is the means for how they examine ...

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