Captain Drew's world : dispatches from the age of global sail / compiled and edited by W. H. Bunting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bunting, William Henry, 1945- Compiler, Editor.

Series:

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/3be90451-678e-4a3a-3f1f-ddb68a1d3e39

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drew, John H., 1834-1890--Travel.

Drew, John H.

Sea Witch (Square-rigger)--History.

Sea Witch (Square-rigger).

Ship captains--Maine.

Ship captains.

Merchant marine--United States--History--19th century.

Merchant marine.

Seafaring life--History--19th century.

Seafaring life.

Reportage literature, American--19th century.

Reportage literature, American.

Physical Description:

xiv, 701 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm

illustrations.

maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"From 1877 to 1889, as Captain John H. Drew plied the world's oceans aboard the full-rigged ship Sea Witch of Boston, he wrote lengthy dispatches to the Boston Journal. He was a man of action and intellect who crafted closely observed, empathic prose, well-salted with dry wit. Drew described his current and past voyaging in various trades, including the Boston "Straits" trade, the cotton and emigrant trade, the Cape Horn grain trade, the East India ice trade, the Far East case oil trade, the Australian packet trade, and the sugar trade from sleepy ports of the Spanish and Dutch empires that today are teeming megacities. He font of knowledge included the proper stowage of cargoes of pepper, sugar, and firecrackers. An expert navigator and seaman, Drew also loved music; dabbled in art; studied history, literature, and geography; and was a world-class collector of seashells. He was outspoken against the virulent anti-Chinese bias of the late 1800s. A superlative chronicler of life at sea, Drew was a keen observer of foreign lands and cultures. Drew's later letters reflect a melancholy, the loneliness of a captain's life, the drowning of three of his brothers, and the decline of the once-preeminent American deepwater fleet. As a member of a shipbuilding family with deep maritime roots in Maine's Kennebec River valley, Drew wrote to preserve the record of the passing of an age and his place in it. Maritime historian and editor W. H. Bunting has compiled Drew's writings and gathered them here with enlightening annotation. Captain Drew's World: Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail provides readers a vivid window onto the great age of sail from both coasts of the United States to the Caribbean, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Birth, 1834-End of Captain Drew's Voyages, 1888

New York to San Francisco to Dublin to New York, March 7, 1877-April 28, 1878

New York to Shanghai to the Philippines to New York, June 9, 1878-September 8, 1879

New York to Batavia to Singapore to Manila to New York, October 31, 1879-October 24, 1880

New York to Calcutta to Boston, December 30, 1880-October 14, 1881

Philadelphia to Hyogo (Kobe) to Hong Kong to Singapore to New York, December 17, 1881-March 17, 1883

New York to Melbourne to Newcastle, New South Wales, to Hong Kong to Cebu to New York, June 1884-August 1885

Philadelphia to the Dutch East Indies to the Philippines to New York, November 1887- December 1888

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Bunting, William Henry, 1945- Captain Drew's world

ISBN:

9781648432262

1648432263

OCLC:

1557950469