This captivating book contains firsthand records by a great range of travelers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands—full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils.
The Sea Journal includes historical figures like Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian who sailed with Magellan; Tupia, a Tahitian who joined Captain Cook's first voyage; buccaneer Bartholomew Sharp, who menaced the Spanish Main; and Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
-With 60+ biographical portraits accompanied by colorful sketches and maps, each story unfolds in an exciting way.
-Explore adventures from the frozen polar wastes to the South Seas paradise islands.
-Readers meet a fascinating cast of real characters: officers and crew, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers.
- Hardcover
- 320 pages
- Written by Huw Lewis-Jones, foreword by Don Walsh
