ISBN: 0809085046
Author: Tom Chaffin
Language: English
Publisher: Hill and Wang; 1st edition (May 29, 2007)
Pages: 464
Category: Americas
Subcategory: History
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 714
Size Fb2: 1157 kb
Size ePub: 1959 kb
Size Djvu: 1583 kb
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And it flew understandably at Sea. The investigation for a book of this sort presumably could have take up a man's life and more, as the records are massive.
Tom Chaffin's other books include Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary and Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire. His writing have also appeared in the New York Times, the Oxford American, Harper's, and other publications. And it flew understandably at Sea. But Mr. Chaffin was indeed diligent, and did his homework. I merely have a couple of reasonably small points against the book.
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An interesting historical viewpoint into the cruise of the last confederate commerce raider and her round the world journey.
Four months after the Civil War was over, the captain learned the war was over, and he had gone from being an enemy combatant to a pirate, a hangable offense. An interesting historical viewpoint into the cruise of the last confederate commerce raider and her round the world journey. Detailed enough for the historian without bogging down.
The 58,000-Mile, Around-the-World Cruise of the Confederacy's Last Ship Afloat The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer The Sea King left London on October, 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay
The 58,000-Mile, Around-the-World Cruise of the Confederacy's Last Ship Afloat The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer The Sea King left London on October, 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay.
Magazine article Sea Classics. Combine their wordsmithing with a gripping history of one of the most romantic sea raiders of all time - the Confederate States Ship Shenandoah - and you have all the ingredients of a superb easy-reading tome that is a sure-fire best seller ideal for nomination to the Book of the Month Club. This is precisely what Chaffm provides in his latest instant classic Sea of Gray, a book certain to satisfy the most demanding Civil War buff and nautical fan as it takes one on a nostalgic thrill ride in a time long ag.
Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah. Tom Chaffin's "Sea of Gray" puts you right on deck, smelling the sea, hearing the wash of the bow wave, tasting the salt spray. Having grown up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, this book brought me a beautiful evocation and reminder of life on the water.
Excerpted from Sea of Gray by Tom Chaffin.
Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Excerpted from Sea of Gray by Tom Chaffin. Published February 2006 by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved. One. Of Ice Floes and Arctic Fires.
Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea
The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn.
Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirate―a hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil.
"A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and Sea of Glory
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