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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> THE MOTIVATION for timing and outcome of passages to and from the Somerset coast are examined in this chapter which is based upon over two hundred accounts from a wide range of sources. However a main purpose of this Hiscourse is to give an authentic voice to the experience of maritime travel in the Bristol Channel prior to the Age of Steam through the use of predominantly) contemporary accounts thus ringing a very personal perspective to Somerset’s maritime history. Aspects of Tudor Stuart and Georgian trade from the Somerset ports are explored y various authors elsewhere in A maritime history of omerset volume one: trade and commerce which identified a wide distribution of destinations for vessels whose journeys originated on the Somerset coast. The resulting trade routes meant possibilities for personal travel opened up for many people from all walks of life and it is clear they did not only travel in designated passenger vessels such as the Irish packets but at times used cargo vessels fishing vessels and even warships to complete their passages.