Sea Struck [Paperback]

Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of square-rigged sailthrough the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three young men fromMassachusetts. There is plenty of adventure here storms, men overboard,discipline that bordered on brutality, and exotic ports. There is also afascinating immersion in the lore of the sea and sail and the global web ofconnections in the New England maritime community.This marvelous book should be hailed as an instant classic.A fine chronicle of New Englands passion for the sea.Bunting writes sentences of stunning gracefulness.? Well researched story of three young men from Massachusetts who went to sea at the end of the 19th century, and their lives aboard three different ships.For young men more than a century ago, going to sea was as much a rite of passage as making a grand tour of Europe.