Brian Lavery
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated chronicle of the history of ships from ancient times to the global age, with notes on ship construction, life at sea, and the use of ships for exploration, trade, military action, and pleasure travel, and brief profiles of notable seafaring people.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Spans five thousand years of the ocean's history to tell the stories of the courageous individuals who sailed the seas for trade, to conquer new lands, and to explore the unknown, from the early Polynesians to the first circumnavigations by the Portuguese and the British.
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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English