From Baird Maritime:
A wide ranging, both historically and geographically, interesting and useful book. The author is a master mariner turned maritime historian who knows his stuff.
As well as being an accomplished and practicing historian of long standing, the author has sailed throughout the Pacific on both yachts and cargo ships. He has thus had considerable contact with indigenous seamen.
They, essentially, are what this book is about. He describes where they come from historically, pre-European contact and where they now fit into the global maritime scene.
For a region with such a sparse and diverse population, its seamen play a disproportionately important role in modern maritime activity. The author makes very clear how this came about.
An engaging socio-economic history of a major sub set of more general maritime history.
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