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REVIEWS thi s stunning development in his illuminating introduction: "Albuquerque did not devise the ' great design' of Portugal's imperial strategy in the Indian Ocean; his achievement lay in having carried it out and having done so with such breathtaking rapidity and daring, in spite of lukewarm and erratic support from the king, opposition and insubordination from his captains, and almost overwhelming difficulties in the field." The text of this book , consisting of side-byside Portuguese and English transcriptions of contemporary reports both by Albuquerque and his son, gives a vivid picture of those difficulties and of the panache and brutality with which Albuquerque again and again led his handful of Portuguese to victory against odds. Here is a rare and wonderful example of scholarship brought directly to the public-for the work is an outstandingly good read , and the editors help you understand things that might be obscure to everyone except their fellow scholars. Excellent notes round out the picture of both Asian and European ship types, technology and society in the Indian Ocean of half a millenium ago. PS
American Mariner, by Herbert Paul Hahn (American Merchant Marine Museum Foundation, Kings Point NY, 1990, 270p, illus, biblio, index, $26.95) The American Mariner began life as the George Calvert, a perfectly ordinary Liberty ship. The vessel was changed into a training ship three weeks after Pearl Harbor and completed under the name she has today-American Mariner. During her later years Mariner cruised cadet-midshipmen for state maritime academies. She also served as a missile range instrumentation ship measuring highaltitude nuclear tests, and as a target ship, which she is still doing. She has been operated by the Navy , the Army, the Air Force and the Coast Guard, not to mention her original service for the War Shipping Administration. Fortunately for us, author Hahn brought together a remarkable collection of photos associated with Mariner's many activities, featuring the ship in her guises as training ship, missile tracking vessel and test target. His passion for research can be detected throughout the book, and sometimes the way he dug up facts conveys the feeling of a detective at work. The book contains a personal record of service which will interest many other veterans of the American MerSEA HISTORY 58, SUMMER 1991