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Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth  Century

Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century

by Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The ships and men of Spain's Atlantic fleets, crucial to the country's empire in the New World during the 16th century, are discussed in lively detail in this prodigiously researched book. The author brings this unique nautical society to life with humor and drama.  (SPN93, $40.00)


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