The sea in all its uses: navigation, fisheries, whaling, wrecks, lighthouses, cables, pirates and the naval battles that decided empires. Frank Goodrich compiled it in 1873 as a single volume of everything a general reader might want about the ocean. It is an encyclopaedia disguised as a narrative, and the whaling and cable-laying chapters are the strongest.
The sea in all its uses: navigation, fisheries, whaling, wrecks, lighthouses, cables, pirates and the naval battles that decided empires. Frank Goodrich compiled it in 1873 as a single volume of everything a general reader might want about the ocean. It is an encyclopaedia disguised as a narrative, and the whaling and cable-laying chapters are the strongest.
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