Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture

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As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards's works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwards's writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change.

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Is there any tale more thrilling than a shipwreck? Disaster at sea is an ever-present peril, inspiring ancient legends, great works of fiction, and countless yarns of deadly typhoons, vessels consumed by fire, and desperate castaways alone on an empty ocean. Before Homer composed The Odyssey, sailors were already telling their terrifying stories, and Anthony Brandt has culled only the very best for this essential and engrossing chronicle of shipwrecks through the ages.

Brandt's selections range from Icelandic sagas to Mark Twain to Titanic and beyond. The Tragic History of the Sea draws from tales around the globe: the doomed Medusa, whose survivors were abandoned to their fate, to live on only in a famous painting in the Louvre; the infamous Essex and her fatal cruise which inspired Melville's Moby Dick; or the harrowing wreck of the Wager, which left kinsman to poet Lord Byron, starving on Patagonia's bleak shores.

A riveting anthology of high adventure and astonishing survival against all odds, this storm-tossed voyage through history's gales and across unforgiving seas represents the best of a storytelling tradition that goes back centuries. Each extraordinary tale is linked to the next by Brandt's expert annotations and commentary, which sets them in context, provides a wealth of maritime and literary background and places this volume of shipwreck tales in a class by itself.

The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic

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The Great Disaster prior to Titanic
Women and children last.
"the sea is an unforgiving body"

The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic
David W. Shaw
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By the mid-19th century, steamships were eclipsing traditional sailing ships in the lucrative transatlantic trade. The largest of these, the American Arctic, collided with a smaller vessel in 1854 with a frightful, and unnecessary, loss of life. David W. Shaw's The Sea Shall Embrace Them tells the story of this disaster, eerily similar in many ways to the later sinking of the Titanic. Shaw lays out the immediate and secondary causes of the disaster: bad weather, no established shipping lanes, the ship's owners' preference for speed rather than prudence, and an appalling lack of safety precautions. As well, he describes the suffering and grotesque deaths of many aboard and dozens of acts of pure cowardice on the part of the crew. The writing for the most part is vivid and effective, though the physical layout of the ship is somewhat murky. The story of the Arctic is not only sad and the tragedy avoidable, but one that, as Shaw points out, would be repeated many times in the decades to follow. --H. O'Billovitch

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The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history. David W. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including the Arctic's heroic captain, James C. Luce, who was forced to fight his mutinous crew as they took the lifeboats and left hundreds of passengers to suffer a cruel and painful death. Not only did 400 people -- including Luce's own frail son -- die by daybreak, but the wreck also ended the domination of the seas by the American maritime fleet for the rest of the nineteenth century.

Utterly compelling, The Sea Shall Embrace Them is a stirring slice of heretofore little-known American history. Beautifully written, it puts the reader on deck as a ship full of men, women, and children do battle both with a mighty ocean and with their own baser instincts.

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Quick, easy read - good info on mid 19th century at sea.......2006-02-23

Bought the book to learn more about immigration in the 1850s. My great great grandfather brought his family from Germany to USA in 1853 on the USM Atlantic, a sister ship of the Arctic.
Enjoyed this book very much!

Fateful tale of cowardice and courage at sea.......2005-08-22

The fateful voyage of the Titanic was not the first time a luxury liner went to the bottom taking the cream of society with it. Decades before, the steamship Arctic, the pride of the Collins line, had suffered a catastrophic collision that resulted in 400 souls lost. The behavior of the crew was hardly the model of civility, though. The fact that only 22 passengers survived the ordeal, along with 65 crewmen, hints at the panic-stricken, near-mutinous conditions aboard the Arctic prior to its demise.

Collins, backed by private and -- controversially -- US Government funds, had created the first credible competitor to Cunard's line of packet ships. When the Crimean war forced Cunard to convert his ships to British naval use, the Collins line had a chance to establish itself as the predominant Transatlantic packet service. But the final voyage of the Arctic helped seal Collins' fate: its foolhardy rush through heavy fog, intended to maintain speed records, resulted in a massive collision with a French, iron-hulled fishing vessel: the Vesta.

While the damages to the Arctic initially appeared slight, all too soon its wooden hull (with no watertight compartments) was discovered to have been holed in three distinct areas. And because the Vesta had left a jagged portion of its bow sticking in the steamship's hull, the traditional methods of patching at sea were rendered impossible. As the ship foundered, panic-stricken crew-members and passengers fought for the all-too-limited number of seats on the lifeboats.

Shaw has done impressive work chronicling a non-fictional story that reads like fiction. But there's a reason Shaw didn't write this work as a novel: there are so many bizarre coincidences and events involved that only a strict recitation of the known facts could have resulted in a believable story. The demise of the Arctic is a chilling tale and one with every bit the controversy, mystery, heroism and cowardice of its much better known counterpart.

The Great Disaster prior to Titanic.......2005-03-09

The Artic (a beautiful watercolor of this steamship from the collection of Walter Lord, author of A NIGHT TO REMEMBER is used on the cover) was the largest of America's steamboats in 1854. Its fate was similar in many ways to the later Titanic disaster, but on a smaller scale. Firsthand testimony of the survivors makes this a classic.

The manager of the Collins Line, owner of Artic, lost his wife and two children in this 'Great Disaster,' in which four hundred people died. Captain Luce lost his son, who was aboard but sick in bed below deck. There were many infants, children, and teenagers aboard the boat when it collided head on with Vesta off the coast of Newfoundland on September 27, 1854, in a dense fog.

Of 408 parents, children, and crew, only 87 survived, with a mere 22 passengers, as the crew took the lifeboats. The unwritten law of the sea was "women and children first" but some of the women panicked as they were little more than small canoes, only six in number. Most of the parents and children could have fit in these flimsy boats, but the crew mutinied, going off in half empty lifeboats, leaving the others to die.

The Artic had left the dock at the foot of Canal Street in Manhattan, New York, ending up near Newfoundland that fateful day in September. They tried to reach land getting as far as St. John's on September 30. This was an important chapter in the U. S. Merchant Marines as they helped with the rescue.

Because the captain had left his first officer with six men to linger in the fog, the sailors abandoned the vessel. Captains rarely speak to their sailors directly, and he tried in vain to save his command. He would survive the shipwreck by clinging to the housing of the steam engine after it was turned to flotsam. The strange-looking life preservers proved defective.

The New York HERALD printed a poem, 'The Loss of the Artic' in its October 22nd edition, included in the Appendix. There are photos and drawings in the photo section to help understand the circumstances. The Artic ended up at the botton of the Atlantic Ocean, but those rescued told the tale -- as opposed to the deserted "ghost ship" Mary Celeste.

David W. Shaw has written FLYING CLOUD, DARING THE SEA and INLAND PASSAGE and is a sailor himself. He did intensive research and gave a glossary so that the reader could better understand his sailor's slang.

Women and children last........2005-01-20

A sad story about a ship's crew deserting their quarters to save themselves rather than the passengers they were carrying across the Atlantic. For those interested in disasters and the maritime trade across the Atlantic, this is a great story. I have read one other of Shaw's books (Daring the Sea) and this is by far a superior story. Shaw recreates much of the 1850s trade with Great Britain, and the subsequent disaster, that this is enticing reading. The hero is Captain Luce who is willing to sacrifice the life of himself and his young son for the passengers. Ultimately he is one of the survivors through a fluke of fate. His son dies. Another hero is the crewman who continued the distress signal until he died. These people deserved to live, not the rabble who took the life boats.
Walter Lord endorsed this book before he passed away. Since most of Lord's books are great reads, the reader should get a hold of a copy of this book and read this exciting tale.

"the sea is an unforgiving body".......2004-02-18

Readers who approach Shaw's The Sea Shall Embrace Them as an academic historical account of the sinking of the American steamship Arctic in 1854 will be disappointed. Although Shaw mentions sources sporadically throughout the text (mostly at the beginning), most of the information, including quotations, are not referenced. Shaw writes a lot of details including what was going through the minds of the main people involved in the tragedy, their mannerisms, the environment they saw, etc. through interpretation.

If readers approach this work as history written for a mass audience presented with a novelist's flair, they will find this book to be riveting. The chapters are brief (most around 8 pages) and the story is interesting, exciting, and fast-moving. At times, it may be a little more flowery than most students of history are used to, but such possibly superfluous descriptions of scenery, etc. are not that distracting. It mostly affects a handful of pages in the first chapters, although my favorite example is on page 152: "...men and women, as well as their teenagers, children, and infants, would never again admire the blazing fall foliage soon to be dressing the environs of New York in a spectrum of orange, red, and yellow even more intense in color than when Arctic set off on her last voyage in September." The book does not always read like this, though. Of course, the story gets more exciting as it approaches the accident and sinking with huge loss of life; however, I also found the beginning chapters very interesting, especially the competition between the English Cunard Line and the American Collins Line for supremacy of the overseas mail. Cunard will of course be challenged later by the White Star Line which created Titanic and her sister ships. Much of this story has similarities to Titanic, so those who enjoy reading about the latter will probably find this book to be of great interest.

Shaw demonstrates an incredible amount of research. When listing the salaries of the Collins employees or the price of a ticket on the Arctic, he includes the equivalent in today's money which better explains his points (it cost over $2,300 in today's money for a first class one-way fair, pg 40. Ouch!). He also uncovers many interesting details. For example, 7 of the 9 ships Luce captained before Arctic sank under another captain's command (pg. 87).

Footnotes would help this book. For example, why does Shaw describe Luce as being depressed while setting of on his final voyage on the Arctic? Was the detail garnered from a diary entry or a later account made by the captain? Still, Shaw demonstrates vast knowledge of the sea and I am confident many of his details, while probably not derived directly from sources, is relatively accurate. Some elements are found lacking. For example, there is much information on those struggling for life on rafts and a paddle box, but nothing on those who left early in the lifeboats who survived. Possibly these survivors-mostly crew-feared reprisals if they gave their accounts, but such is not noted. Also, Shaw maintains that the seemingly doomed Vesta could have saved all passengers and crew on Arctic if Luce had stuck around (pg. 120). What substantiates this claim? Vesta was a smaller ship crippled by the collision. Did an inquiry come to this conclusion? For the most part though, Shaw tells the story quite thoroughly considering the amount of source material available. Shaw also explains why this story is important (the Arctic was a symbol of American pride). Although the ending seems a little skimpy, Shaw explains that, due to the times, there was not as much outrage over some of the disgraceful stories that came out as to the behavior of some of the crew members as one would expect in the sue-happy times in which we now live (pg. 203). Despite its faults in terms of documentation, The Sea Shall Embrace Them is a compelling tale beautifully told.

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The Tragic History of the Sea

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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of great colonial expansion, marked by a mercantile frenzy of ships carrying merchants, aristocrats, missionaries, sailors, Inquisitors, botanists, and statesmen pursuing the spoils of empire. Among the narratives that chronicled these voyages, those of the Portuguese are unequaled. C. R. Boxer's fascinating translations of famous Portuguese shipwreck stories detail the disasters and terrors plaguing the perilous sea trading route between Portugal and India.

In the tradition of Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Defoe, and Poe, these dramatic stories of shipwreck-and those who lived to tell about it-represent existence and survival pushed to the limits. They describe disastrous turns of fate and miraculous rescues, heroism and cowardice, and offer the exhilaration and sheer emotive appeal of a tale of adventure well told. Often circulated in pamphlet form, these stories recounting the dangers and terrors of storm-tossed ocean voyages and the fate of castaways in distant lands were a popular genre, rife with compelling and often gory details.

This first ever paperback edition includes a new translation of the tragic tale of Captain Manuel de Sousa Sepúlveda, shipwrecked with his family on the sands of Africa in 1552, the previous English versions of which have long been unavailable. Vividly descriptive and engrossing, these tales of selfishness, cruelty, despair, pirates, mayhem, and harrowing storms will captivate readers.

C. R. Boxer (1904-2000) was an expert on the perils of the high seas. During his colorful twenty-three-year career in the military, he served as an interpreter and intelligence officer in the Far East, where he was imprisoned by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945. A prolific writer, autodidact, and bon vivant, he was also a celebrated collector of rare books and professor of Portuguese studies at universities in his native England and the United States.

Josiah Blackmore is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto.

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The Imperfect Storm

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Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
Robert Mundle
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In the world of competitive off-shore sailing, Christmas Day is thought of as Boxing Day Eve--that is, the eve of the annual Sydney-to-Hobart Race. One of the world's three major offshore races (along with the Fastnet out of England and America's Newport Race to Bermuda), the 630-mile course from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, Tasmania, is a test of skills, guts, and endurance in notoriously unpredictable, fickle waters--and in any weather.

On Boxing Day, 1998, the 115 boats jockeying at the starting line off Sydney's Nielsen Park Beach had been warned that low-pressure weather systems were conspiring to guarantee a wild and chancy race. Yet few sailors anticipated the ferocity of the storm that descended around two o'clock the next morning, whipping up gale-force winds and waves tall enough to send 25-ton yachts "spearing into midair," then "plunging down into the trough ... like repeatedly launching a truck off a 30-foot ramp and awaiting the crash." The race quickly devolved into the worst sailing disaster in recent memory. Seven crews abandoned their boats. Over 50 sailors were rescued under near-impossible circumstances. Seven died, and five boats sank. Journalist Rob Mundle follows the dramatic struggles in Fatal Storm, skillfully re-creating from firsthand accounts the stories of bravery, luck, and folly that left a handful of sailors convinced they'd never go near the Hobart again. Yet as one veteran yachtsman lived to point out, "It's something you just have to do.... You can't be under the illusion at any time that it is safe." --Svenja Soldovieri

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A gripping, first-hand account of the worst sailing disaster in recent history! Fatal Storm is a first-hand, edge-of-the-seat account of the awesome power of nature. Written by a seasoned journalist who covered the race, it contains haunting images that are both vivid and unforgettable--the scream of the wind, the roar of the waves, the last sight of a lost crewmember floating face down while his boat is swept helplessly away. Above all, it is a tale of raw adventure.

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The Imperfect Storm.......2006-07-25

The Southern Ocean---that landless sweep of sea that girds the lower third of our planet and isolates Antarctica---is notorious for its evil weather. Huge rollers, unchecked by any landmass, roil around the circumference of the Earth, making this area one of the most daunting, hazardous and challenging for any mariner.

Once yearly on Boxing Day, the 630-mile Sydney-to-Hobart Yacht Race crosses a small portion of the Southern Ocean. One of the three great sport sailing events (along with the Fastnet and the Newport-to-Bermuda) the Sydney-to-Hobart has always had its fickle aspect, but never more so than 1998 when the entire regatta found itself trapped in an unforecasted cyclonic "bomb"---a small and unseasonable but virulent hurricane that produced 80 knot winds and steep hundred foot waves in the relatively narrow Bass Strait.

Although only six sailors died, most of the fleet was battered into kindling by the waves, tall as buildings, heavier, and with much more velocity. Author Rob Mundle, an experienced distance ocean sailor, does a fine job of reportage as he tracks and traces the fates of the various participants, including the Sea-Rescue parajumpers who leapt into the darkness of the angry ocean to save the hapless crews of the shattered boats.

FATAL STORM is well written and avoids becoming bogged down in too much nautical technospeak making it a good adventure story for the armchair enthusiast. The one drawback of FATAL STORM is that Mundle assumes the reader's relative familiarity with the meteorology, landforms, and idiosyncrasies of Australia's natural environment. For those of us not "Down Under" this makes FATAL STORM slightly more difficult to decode than it needs to be.

Worth a read.......2006-07-05

This is such a riveting story that it would be hard to write a bad book about it. Mundle is a fine writer, and the book is easy to read and a real page turner.
As a story teller though, he could use some improvement. For example, one of the yachts is capsized by a giant wave and a man thrown overboard. What happens to him? Will he drown in the stormy waters of Bass Straight? Or is he rescued? We turn the page to find... a quote from the man in question describing what was going through his head as he fell from the yacht. So he lives! Full marks for thorough research, zero for sustaining the tension of the story.

Another caveat for non boating readers. Mundle makes no attempt to explain any of the yachting jargon used throughout the book, so if you are a non boating person like myself, I would recommend reading with a copy of Wikipedia or the full Oxford dictionary by your side so you can understand terms like storm sail, jib, cockpit and many others that are used throughout the book. This will enhance your enjoyment of the book no end.

All in all a great read.

Inspiring and frightning.......2005-09-29

Rob Mundle is journalist and it shows. But behind the bonhomie and parochialism of the yachting scene insider there's an immediacy to this narrative, a rawness to the action and a fire in these heroics that combine to make Fatal Storm an inspiring read. There's something wild about this story, something that makes it different to Fastnet Force 10. There are moments in Fatal Storm when the sailors reading it will be afraid.

Great Read for a long airline flight.......2002-04-05

I finished this book on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles...with one disaster after another occurring in this massive storm, the writer keeps the reader actively turning pages throughout the book. You would not believe the bravery of everyone involved, from the actual racing teams to the rescue teams, not one person was left unphased by this experience.

I am not an active sailor now, but with some experience in racing with a crew on sailboats, I found the account of this true story gripping.

Certainly, a fun book to read, even if you are not into sailing. It may even convince you to never go open ocean sailing!

Interesting.......2001-06-09

A pretty good read. The story jumped around a bit, but you can keep up with it. The map toward the start was a big help in locating where the accidents happened. The pictures could have used a little more explaining.

Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea 1559-1565: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559) Sao Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565).

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Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea 1559-1565: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559) Sao Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565).
C. R. Boxer
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Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565
C. R., Ed. Boxer
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Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622

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Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622
Bernardo Gomes de, 1688-1760? Brito
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The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis: The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea

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Anatomy of a Disaster

The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis: The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea
Raymond B. Lech
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

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This is the true story of the massive thirty-year cover-up that followed the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis.

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Anatomy of a Disaster.......2002-09-23

The first history of the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS to have access to governmental papers and records on the tragedy (an earlier book, Richard F. Newcomb's ABANDON SHIP!, relied primarily on the sailors' often contradictory first-hand accounts of what little they observed), this book paints a vivid portrait of the horror of the disaster, as well as the Naval blunders that led to it, and the fifty-year cover-up that followed.

In the final days of World War II, the USS INDIANAPOLIS was sunk en route back to the United States, having delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima. Of the 1200 men on board, 400 were killed in the torpedoing. The remaining 800 would float in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific for four days without the US Navy being aware they were missing. When the men were at last spotted by accident and rescued, only 300 were still alive. A Naval court-martial would declare the INDIANAPOLIS' Captain Charles Butler McVay culpable for the loss of his ship.

Although Lech's primary thesis -- that Captain McVay was innocent -- has become outdated by the course of history (the US Congress posthumously exonerated McVay in October 2000, nearly 20 years after the publication of this book and over 30 years after McVay's suicide -- a history briefly laid out in the latest Afterword to Newcomb's book and in the more recent IN HARM'S WAY by Doug Stanton), there is still plenty to find here. Lech carefully dissects the chain of accidents and circumstances leading up to the sinking. He has a talent for bringing the key figures to life and for vividly describing the horrors they witnessed. Within his larger portrait of a naval blunder, Lech reveals some incredible anecdotes and side stories, most notably the story of the Japanese Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto, who found himself in the unusual position of being a witness in the trial of a captain whose ship he had sunk after the war in which they both fought was over.

At the end of his story, Mr. Lech aids those hoping to delve further into the incident by providing over 60 pages of Appendices, including the full text of several Naval dispatches and of Hashimoto's testimony, as well as a 15-page bibliography including a complete list by number of the Naval dispatches he consulted in his research.

Whether for the history buff or the serious scholar, Lech's well-researched, thorough, vivid history of the tragedy is a great starting place for research into one of the most compelling stories of the World War II Pacific theater, and is highly recommended.

THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF THE SEA 1589-1622 Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Sao Thome (1589) , Santo Alberto (1593) , Sao Joao Baptista (1622) , and the Journeys of the Survivors in South East Africa

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THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF THE SEA 1589-1622 Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Sao Thome (1589) , Santo Alberto (1593) , Sao Joao Baptista (1622) , and the Journeys of the Survivors in South East Africa
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Tragic History Sea (Hakluyt Society Second)
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