The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813) by Vickers, Daniel

The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)

The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who...
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Author: Daniel Vickers
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The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813) by Vickers, Daniel

The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)

CHF 43.19

The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)

CHF 43.19
Author: Daniel Vickers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today's readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today's audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events--an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism.The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers' introduction provides the context for Bowen's life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen's diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.

Author: Daniel Vickers
Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
Published: 08/08/2006
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781551117812

About the Author

Daniel Vickers is Head of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (1994) and, with Vince Walsh, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (2005).




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