Life on the high seas
May 14, 2020
2 minutes
In an age when few working-class men travelled outside their home county, deep-water sailors traversed the globe, encountering new and strange worlds, exotic flora and fauna, and endless opportunities for a ‘run ashore’ to the local bars, brothels and markets at the end of a voyage.
Most of these men left no written record
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