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Paperback The Mercantile Marine: The Story of the Merchants of the Seas and Oceans Book

ISBN: 0857060813

ISBN13: 9780857060815

The Mercantile Marine: The Story of the Merchants of the Seas and Oceans

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The story of sail and trade

Man is a creature on the land occupying a world covered principally by water. Whilst he could move himself and his trade goods by foot, beast and wheel, he realised millennia ago the potentials of the open water and the power of the wind to carry his goods to market. So the birth of the Mercantile Marine was inevitable. The history of the passage of goods upon the high seas has been taken in hand here by Keble Chatterton...

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