Further Selections from the tragic history of the sea 1559-1565

Boxer, Charles Ralph: 1968 Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, hardcover with dust jacket 170 pages. Illustrated with plates, woodcut reproductions, and a large folding map. This historical work presents translated contemporary accounts of dramatic Portuguese maritime disasters in the mid-sixteenth century, focusing on the harrowing shipwrecks of the East Indiamen Aguia, Garça, and São Paulo. The narrative chronicles the immense hardships, navigational failures, and desperate struggles for survival faced by the crews and passengers along the dangerous trading routes to India and Brazil. In very good condition.