These dramatic tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English for the first time from the author's sixteenth-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travelers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, and sociology. The author's goal in writing about these events is not only to share these captivating stories with others but also “o that men may know the many perils that accompany sea travel.”
Keywords: seafaring, shipwrecks, New World, narratives, colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, sociology
Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813035406 |
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: September 2011 | DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813035406.001.0001 |