Spain's Men of the Sea
Subtitle: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801857461
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Maritime history; Technology; Naval History (General); History - General History; Spain; History: World; Navigation; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; History / Europe / General; History; Military Science; 16th century; Seafaring life
First sentence: Sooner or later, any sailor who traveled to the Indies in Spanish ships made a stop in Seville, the great port on the Guadalquivir River.