copyright 1964; Sage Books publishers, Denver, Colorado; hardbound in blue decorative boards with red totem on cover and red lettering along spine; quite good condition with unmarked pages; no dust jacket; wonderful black and white photos.
 
From the Foreword -
Today, when shanghaiing is only a story depicted in a book or shown on a cinema screen, few people realize that it was a common practice in the early days of seafaring; that the cruelty the brutality of man's inhumanity to man was an actuality.  Wind-jammers, which spawned those awful practices of shanghaiing, and familiar only to those who lived at the turn of the century.
 
I was shanghaied on a windjammer...