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Captain Drew's World

Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail

Av William H. Bunting, W. H. Bunting, W H Bunting

Del i serien Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

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From 1877 to 1889, as Captain John H. Drew plied the world's oceans aboard the full-rigged ship Sea Witch of Boston, he wrote lengthy dispatches to the Boston Journal. He was a man of action and intellect who crafted closely observed, empathic prose, well-salted with dry wit. Drew described his current and past voyaging in various trades, including the Boston "Straits" trade, the cotton and emigrant trade, the Cape Horn grain trade, the East India ice trade, the Far East case oil trade, the Australian packet trade, and the sugar trade from sleepy ports of the Spanish and Dutch empires that today are teeming megacities. He font of knowledge included the proper stowage of cargoes of pepper, sugar, and firecrackers.An expert navigator and seaman, Drew also loved music; dabbled in art; studied history, literature, and geography; and was a world-class collector of seashells. He was outspoken against the virulent anti-Chinese bias of the late 1800s. A superlative chronicler of life at sea, Drew was a keen observer of foreign lands and cultures. Drew's later letters reflect a melancholy, the loneliness of a captain's life, the drowning of three of his brothers, and the decline of the once-preeminent American deepwater fleet. As a member of a shipbuilding family with deep maritime roots in Maine's Kennebec River valley, Drew wrote to preserve the record of the passing of an age and his place in it.Maritime historian and editor W. H. Bunting has compiled Drew's writings and gathered them here with enlightening annotation. Captain Drew's World: Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail provides readers a vivid window onto the great age of sail from both coasts of the United States to the Caribbean, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and beyond.
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W. H. Bunting is an award-winning maritime historian and author of Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships and Sea Struck. He also edited Portrait of a Port: Boston, 1852–1914, among other titles.

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"Captain Drew's World offers a unique window on the waning age of global sail. Striking are this Maine mariner's detailed accounts of craft and cargo, paired with deeply personal descriptions of his range of feelings as he tells of adventures to far-flung seaports, from Bath to Batavia, Shanghai to San Francisco, and many more. This book is a treasure worthy of recognition as a classic in American maritime history."—Harald E.L. Prins, coauthor of Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt. Desert Island, 1840s–1920s and From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: The Story of Charles Shay, Penobscot Indian War Hero"No other account describes the joy or the pain of a shipmaster's life under sail as well as Captain John Drew's writing. W. H. Bunting's skillful editing and knowledgeable notes put the reader in the nineteenth-century world of trade to China, Japan, and the East Indies. Drew and Bunting together put us inside the head of a captain balancing the condition of his storm-lashed ship and the lives of his crew and officers against the needs of the ship's owners and the relentless sea. No matter your degree of expertise in maritime things, you will learn something from this big book."—Nathan R. Lipfert, Curator Emeritus at Maine Maritime Museum, and author of Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding: A Visual History and The Bath Custom House, and co-author of Lobstering and the Maine Coast (with Kenneth R. Martin) and Maine & The Sea (with Charles E. Burden)."William Bunting helps modern readers to appreciate life at sea 150 years ago through his enhancement of accounts originally written by Captain John H. Drew, a sailing shipmaster, better known to that generation as the 'Knickerbecker.' Drew enthralled thousands of New England newspaper readers by his colorful and descriptive stories in serial form based on his experiences at sea and land written from the perspective of a ship captain, most of which were composed on board Sea Witch, a typical 'first-class,' square-rigged ship based in Boston, which hauled a variety of cargoes around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope from US East coast to world ports, and returned cargo-laden. I highly recommend it."—Michael Jay Mjelde, author of From Whaler to Clipper Ship: Henry Gillespie, Down East Captain

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