A Regiment for the Sea, and Other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, C.1535-1582 by

Hakluyt Society, Second

A Regiment for the Sea, and Other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, C.1535-1582

500 pages hardcover

1 edition

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William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar nor of gentle birth, both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the 16th century, when the scientific book...

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