A Sailor's Songbag: An American Rebel in an English Prison, 1777-1779 by: Carey, George G.(ed.)
Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Timothy Connor, a rebel sailing on an American privateer during the Revolutionary War, was captured and imprisoned for 2 years; keeping a book of 56 "coarse sailor songs" he heard or read, and here are the lyrics! with an introduction on privateering and prison life "from the bottom up." 164 pages, Clean copy.