The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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... voyage round the world from 1577 to 1580. It does not lie within the province of a naval historian to describe that famous voyage , any more than the scores of voyages of other Elizabethan seamen . Suffice it to say that what was ...
... voyage round the world from 1577 to 1580. It does not lie within the province of a naval historian to describe that famous voyage , any more than the scores of voyages of other Elizabethan seamen . Suffice it to say that what was ...
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... voyage Dampier was given command of a man- of - war , H.M.S. Roebuck ; but it was not a happy voyage be- cause a mutinous crew prevented him from making further discoveries than New Britain and the strait that bears his name . On his ...
... voyage Dampier was given command of a man- of - war , H.M.S. Roebuck ; but it was not a happy voyage be- cause a mutinous crew prevented him from making further discoveries than New Britain and the strait that bears his name . On his ...
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... voyage became the most popular travel - book of the century . To read it to - day is to share in one of the greatest feats of endurance on record . It also has a pathetic interest in the way it illustrates the same faults as those which ...
... voyage became the most popular travel - book of the century . To read it to - day is to share in one of the greatest feats of endurance on record . It also has a pathetic interest in the way it illustrates the same faults as those which ...
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