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A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks / David Gibbins.

Gibbins, David J. L., (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781250325372
ISBN: 1250325374
Physical Description: xiv, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.