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Book Review of The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast: An Anthology of Eyewitness Accounts from the Age of Fighting Sail

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Readers of late 18th century and early 19th century naval fiction should find these accounts by the men who lived and fought aboard the ships fascinating. Especially those accounts written by members of the "lower deck."