Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World
by
Prof. Stephen R. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia. Two hundred and twenty-seven passengers boarded two merchant ships accompanied by a British naval vessel and began a transformative voyage across the Atlantic that would last nearly five months. Chronicling...