Starving sailors : the influence of nutrition upon naval and maritime history / edited by J. Watt, E.J. Freeman, and W.F. Bynum
1981, First Edition. [London] : National Maritime Museum. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #239168
ISBN: 0905555538
Physical description; 212 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. Notes; Proceedings of an international symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, in April 16-18, 1980. Includes bibliographies and index. Contents; Energy requirements in health / J.V.G.A. Durnin -- Victualling of the fleet in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / C.C. Lloyd -- Vitamin requirements of the human body / I.M. Sharman -- Two hundred years of the sailor's diet / G.J. Milton-Thompson -- Clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiencies / G. Taylor -- Some consequences of nutritional disorders in eighteenth-century British circumnavigation / J. Watt -- Eighteenth-century French voyages of exploration: general problems of nutrition with special reference to the voyages of Bougainville and d'Entrecasteaux / A. Carré -- Health and navigation in the South Seas: the Spanish experience / J. de Zulueta and L. Higueras -- Doctors abroad. Medicine and nineteenth-century Arctic exploration / R.E. Johnson -- By want beleaguered. Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in the Canadian Arctic / R.E. Johnson -- The history and implications of processed food / A.E. Bender -- Hypothermia / W.R. Keatinge -- Nutritional aspects of the British Arctic (Nares) expedition of 1875-76 and its predecessors / A. Savours and M. Deacon -- The influence of diet in Scott's last expedition / A.F. Rogers -- Nutritional deficiencies in the crews of German raiders in two world wars / H. Schadewaldt -- Neurological factors in decision-making / W. Gooddy. Summary; Proceedings of an international symposium on the influence of nutrition upon naval and maritime history, held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 16th to 18th April 1980. Subjects; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). Sailors - Nutrition - Influence - Congresses. Naval history - Congresses. Navigation - History - Congresses. Naval Medicine - history. Nutrition - history. Nutrition Disorders - history. Avitaminosis - history. Deficiency Diseases - history. Seafaring life - Congresses. Nutrition - Congresses. Seafaring. Nutritional factors, - 1700-1945 - Conference proceedings. Voyages and travels. starving sailors. maritime history. Genre; Bibliography. Conference proceedings. Conference publication.
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