Captains from Devon: The Great Elizabethan Seafarers who Won the Oceans for EnglandAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985 - 221 pàgines Recounts the lives and the adventures of the great English sea captains from Devon, as they explored the oceans, and changed their country to a nation that looked oceanward for its destiny. |
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