{"product_id":"britain-and-the-ocean-road-ian-friel-9781399000505","title":"Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297-1825","description":"\u003ci\u003eBritain and the Ocean Road\u003c\/i\u003e uses new firsthand research and unconventional interpretations to take a fresh look at British maritime history in the age of sail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe human stories of eight shipwrecks serve as waypoints on the voyage, as the book explores how and why Britain became a global sea power. Each chapter has people at its heart - sailors, seafaring families, passengers, merchants, pirates, explorers, and many others. The narrative encompasses an extraordinary range of people, ships and events, such as a bloody maritime civil war in the 13th century, a 17th-century American teenager who stepped from one ship to another - and into a life of piracy, a British warship that fought at Trafalgar (on the French side), and the floating hell of a Liverpool slave-ship, sunk in the year before the slave trade was abolished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is full of surprising details and scenes, including England's rudest and crudest street-name, what it was like to be a passenger in a medieval ship (take a guess), how a fragment of the English theater reached the Far East during Shakespeare's lifetime, who forgave who after a deadly pirate duel, why there were fancy dress parties in the Arctic, and where you could get the best herring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBritain and the Ocean Road\u003c\/i\u003e is the first of two works aimed at introducing a general audience to the gripping (and at times horrifying) story of Britain, its people and the sea. The books will also interest historians and archaeologists, as they are based on original scholarship. The second book, \u003ci\u003eBreaking Seas, Broken Ships\u003c\/i\u003e will take the story from the age of steam to the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Friel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399000500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399000505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pen and Sword History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ian Friel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482631201023,"sku":"9781399000505","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_64dc4f9a-72ff-4893-b0d5-542d093c2287.jpg?v=1715999094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/britain-and-the-ocean-road-ian-friel-9781399000505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}