Tragic History of the Sea
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Tragic History of the Sea by Cr Boxer
An expert on perils of the high seas, British native Boxer (1904-2000) translated the Portuguese collection of accounts, originally published as pamphlets, The Tragic History of the Sea 1589-1622 in 1959 and Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea 1599-1565 in 1968. They were publishedC. R. Boxer (1904-2000) was an expert on the perils of the high seas. During his colorful twenty-three-year career in the military, he served as an interpreter and intelligence officer in the Far East, where he was imprisoned by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945. A prolific writer, autodidact, and bon vivant, he was also a celebrated collector of rare books and professor of Portuguese studies at universities in his native England and the United States.
Josiah Blackmore is associate professor of Portuguese at the University of Toronto.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780816638901 |
| ISBN 10 | 081663890X |
| Title | Tragic History of the Sea |
| Author | Cr Boxer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Year published | 2001-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 536 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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