The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy de Roland Pietsch - 2011-03-01

Pen & Sword Books Limited. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Very Good.

Pen & Sword Books Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Seaforth Publishing, 2010. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9781848320369

Seaforth Publishing. Used - Very Good. 2011. Hardcover. Cloth with dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Very Good.

Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. 240pp., illustrated. Excellent condition. . As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2010.

Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2010. Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson s Trasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training to become officers, but of the orphaned, delinquent or just plain adventurous youths whose prospects on land were bleak and miserable. Many had no adult at all taking care of them; others were failed apprentices; many were troublesome youths for whom communities could not provide so that the Navy represented a form of floating workhouse . Some, with restless and roving minds, like Defoe s Robinson Crusoe, saw deep sea life as one of adventure, interspersed with raucous periods ashore drinking, singing and womanising. The… Leer más

Seaforth Publishing, 2010. Hardcover. New. 208 pages. 9.40x6.70x0.90 inches.

Seaforth Publishing. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0.

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