A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks | David Gibbins | Paperback
Impuestos incluidos
A shipwreck can preserve the traces of a whole world: its trade, technologies, ambitions and daily life. Underwater archaeologist David Gibbins uses twelve wrecks to explore the past through the evidence left beneath the sea.
The subjects range from a Bronze Age cargo ship and a Viking warship to Henry VIII’s Mary Rose, the Arctic story of HMS Terror and the wartime loss of HMS Gairsoppa. Each discovery opens onto a larger history, connecting the surviving material to the people and societies behind it. For readers interested in how maritime history is recovered, this book offers a compelling meeting of archaeology and narrative. It gives familiar historic vessels renewed interest by asking what their remains can actually reveal.
Book Details
- Author: David Gibbins
- Full title: A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781399603508
- Publication date: 06/02/2025
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