A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks
"From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror....
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Early sea traders of prehistory in the 2nd millennium BC
- Royal cargoes at the time of Tutankhamun in the 14th century BC
- Wine trade in the Golden Age of classical Greece in the 5th century BC
- A shipwreck from the height of the Roan Empire in the 2nd century AD
- Christianity and early Byzantium in the early 6th century AD
- Tang China, the Land of Gold and Abbasid Islam in the 9th century AD
- Viking seafaring and voyages of discovery in the 11th century AD
- The Mary Rose (1545) : flagship of King Henry VIII
- The Santo Cristo di Castello (1667) : lost masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age
- The Royal Anne Galley (1721) : gold, piracy, and the African slave trade
- HMS Terror (1848) : to the limit of endurance at the ends of the earth
- SS Gairsoppa (1941) : courage and loss in the Battle of the Atlantic
- Afterword.
