Sailors of the Tall Ships

In every tall ship was a crew of real people—and a sea of untold stories.

From the Age of Discovery to the end of the Age of Sail, wooden ships carried explorers, merchants, sailors, soldiers, pirates, and adventurers across the world's oceans. Their voyages built empires, opened trade routes, fought wars, and transformed history. Yet behind the famous names and great events were human beings whose experiences could be courageous, desperate, humorous, brutal, and astonishing.

In Sailors of the Tall Ships, David Fooks looks beyond the familiar textbook accounts to reveal the people beneath the sails—including unexpected stories surrounding figures such as Columbus, Magellan, and Nelson, and the remarkable women who went to sea in an overwhelmingly male world.

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