The sea trader, his friends and enemies
A popular history of merchant shipping and piracy by the English naval writer David Hannay, published in Boston by Little, Brown in 1912 for general readers. The plates reproduce older engravings and drawings: outline profiles of rigged vessels, cutaway hull and deck plans with oars and gunports, and tonal harbour views crowded with masts, useful as line-art ship silhouettes, technical cross-sections, and soft-grey port backgrounds.
