Spains Men of the Sea by Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina

Book Review of Spain 's Men of the Sea by Pablo E . Perez-Mallaina

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6 December 2007

This seeks to analyze and discuss Spain 's Men of the Sea by Pablo E . Perez-Mallaina . The author is a historian , being the director of the Department of American History at the University of Seville and he has rich collections of the archives pertaining to stories about the Indies . He intended to write the book to coincide the occasion of the

br 500th anniversary celebration of Christopher Columbus 's 1492 voyage of discovery , thus he addressed the book to a Spanish-speaking audience who may know the broad outlines of the time when Spain was a world power

The book nicely organized into six al chapters that would show the purpose of the author in presenting his ideas and purpose of the writing the book . Since he was basically addressing his books to mariners , the author tried to paint a picture of the difference between the lives in working in land-based environment of life of a mariner which is basically sea-based . Starting with the first chapter , he titled it `Land Environment ' Having described the life in a land based environment , he came to talk about the situation of the would-be mariners with title of `Origin and Social Condition ' in the next chapter . The author was logical then to put the `Ship as a Place of Work ' as the next title of the following chapter . This is followed by the chapter title of `Place of Life and Death ' where the authors discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the life in the ship and as well as many interesting issues of life in the ship . Since life in the boat is necessarily guided by challenges , he titled the next chapter with `Discipline and Conflict ' which spoke these challenges encountered and how mariners tried to resolved situations . So the author was very logical in his presentation as a historian-researcher based on judicial records and documents which he used as bases of his research . Thus he came with the final chapter called `Mental Horizons (Perez-Mallaina 1998 , where he described the some of great heights of human experience as lived and ship and other interesting view that would put the readers get thinking about what Perez presented

As to what were the social backgrounds of individuals who ultimately took to the sea and what factors influenced their decision it could observed that people came from different social background and several factors indeed caused these individuals to decide differently The author explained that individual chose a life at the sea because of economic want . This would mean that there were indeed great opportunities to find one 's lot in the life at the sea (Perez-Mallaina 1998 . Other reasons given include running was from home troubles , a quest for personal advancement , and a high chance for adventurism specially the young . He was particular taking about difficult and danger...