Out-of-print since 1968, this is an important study of Devon's relationship with the sea. Home to pirates, privateers, merchants and naval warriors, SW England still preserves thousands of documents and historical buildings which reveal its maritime history.
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Michael Oppenheim was a scholar, without formal training in history, who acquired a significant reputation as an authority on the maritime history of England, to the writing of which he devoted his mature years.
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