James Seay Dean: 2 books
Tropic Suns
Seadogs Aboard an English Galleon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A historian and sailor describes how 16th-century voyages from England to the Americas were madeWhen a ship set out for the Americas in the 16th century, the crew faced a long voyage and a host of difficulties along the way. Ship-building, navigation, and provisioning were all crucial to the vessel...
Tropics Bound
Elizabeth's Seadogs on the Spanish Main
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The forgotten century of English voyages to the Americas, 1518–1618 In the popular imagination, English colonization in the Americas began with the founding of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607. But the focus of English voyages to this side of the Atlantic for 100 years before that had been much further...