Spain's men of the sea
Subtitle: daily life on the Indies fleets in the sixteenth century
By: Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína ; translated by Carla Rahn Phillips.
Contributors: Phillips, Carla Rahn, 1943-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Navigation -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.; Seafaring life -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
Description: In the Sixteenth Century, Spain's control over its vast New World empire depended on the sailors and officers who manned the galleons and merchant vessels of its Atlantic fleets. In Spain's Men of the Sea, Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina paints a portrait of the daily life of these crews aboard the ships of the Spanish Main. With a novelist's eye for both detail and drama, Perez-Mallaina evokes the golden age of seafaring in this thoroughly researched and generously illustrated account.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-279) and index.