{"product_id":"captain-drews-world-w-h-bunting-9781648432262","title":"Captain Drew's World: Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1877 to 1889, as Captain John H. Drew plied the world's oceans aboard the full-rigged ship \u003ci\u003eSea Witch\u003c\/i\u003e of Boston, he wrote lengthy dispatches to the Boston Journal. He was a man of action and intellect who crafted closely observed, empathic prose, well-salted with dry wit. Drew described his current and past voyaging in various trades, including the Boston \"Straits\" trade, the cotton and emigrant trade, the Cape Horn grain trade, the East India ice trade, the Far East case oil trade, the Australian packet trade, and the sugar trade from sleepy ports of the Spanish and Dutch empires that today are teeming megacities. His font of knowledge included the proper stowage of cargoes of pepper, sugar, and firecrackers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn expert navigator and seaman, Drew also loved music; dabbled in art; studied history, literature, and geography; and was a world-class collector of seashells. He was outspoken against the virulent anti-Chinese bias of the late 1800s. A superlative chronicler of life at sea, Drew was a keen observer of foreign lands and cultures. Drew's later letters reflect a melancholy, the loneliness of a captain's life, the drowning of three of his brothers, and the decline of the once-preeminent American deepwater fleet. As a member of a shipbuilding family with deep maritime roots in Maine's Kennebec River valley, Drew wrote to preserve the record of the passing of an age and his place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaritime historian and editor W. H. Bunting has compiled Drew's writings and gathered them here with enlightening annotation. \u003ci\u003eCaptain Drew's World: Dispatches from the Age of Global Sail\u003c\/i\u003e provides readers a vivid window onto the great age of sail from both coasts of the United States to the Caribbean, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. H. Bunting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1648432263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781648432262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"W. H. Bunting","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48440631066879,"sku":"9781648432262","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88902ebe-ab8d-428d-9ad5-430f6101e913.jpg?v=1777183742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/captain-drews-world-w-h-bunting-9781648432262","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}