Tavern of the Seas"?: The cape of good hope as an oceanic crossroads during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 137-152

  Ward, Kerry ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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