Seas of Plenty - Iain Soden

This is a book about sea journeys made by brave souls – Italians, Germans, Dutch, and English – who battled storms, pirates and xenophobia to stock our homes and feed this island’s appetite for exotics and whatever we could not grow or make ourselves as we fought our way through civil war, invasion paranoia and economic disaster, as if nature’s own storms at sea are not challenge enough.The welcome we extended was often less than cordial, but two dozen of our ports, some cosmopolitan and... Zobrazit více