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tury Atlantic commerce is exposed as a myth . Impressment is proven to weaken the merchant fleet. Chance and insecurity, not stability and safety, preva iled on the 18th century seas. W.M. P.DUNNE Sailing With Pride, photograph s by Greg Pease, with text by Thomas C. Gillmer and Barbara Boss uto (C.A. Baumgartner Publishing, Baltimore MD 1990, unpaginated, 150 color photos, drawings, index, $49.95hb) Hand somely produced, this book documents through Greg Pease's photographs the lives of the replica Baltimore clippers Pride of Baltimore and Pride of Baltimore //- the second built after the first was lost in a squall north of Puerto Ri co in May 1986. The photographs take you to sea, from the famous " race" with the German pilot schooner Wander Bird in San Francisco Bay to the European ports visited by the first Pride on her final cruise. NMHS Advisor Tom Gillmer, designerofboth vessels, writes a fine running commentary, including a history of the type of fast-sailing ship these two fine vessels brought back to life, and sums up the naval architect's concerns and ethos in an instructive and PS moving "Afterword." Albuquerque, Caesar of the East; Selected Texts by Afonso de Albuquerque and His Son, ed, with a translation , introduction and notes by T. F. Earle and John Villiers (Aris & Phillips, Teddington House, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 8PQ, UK , 1990, 308p, illus , index, $55 hb or $25 pb , through NMHS) Within a quarter century of Bartolomeu Dias' s bringing a Portuguese ship into the Indi an Ocean in 1487 , and just over ten years after Vasco da Gama went on to reach India in 1498, the Portuguese established complete naval mastery over the well armed and numerous Moslem fl eets that controlled trade in this Iittleknown new ocean. Albuquerque, an aristocratic soldier, became the Portuguese governor in India after his predecessor Almeida had won the climactic naval battle of Diu in I 509. He used hi s naval mastery to consolidate Portuguese power from Africa in the west to Malaya in the east-a sphere of activity extending over about one seventh of the earth 's c ircumference. Thi s huge ex panse was held down by planting Portuguese fortresses at major trading entrepots . John Villiers gives a clear picture of SEA HISTORY 58, SUMMER 1991
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