Title:
The conquest of the ocean : the illustrated history of seafaring / Brian Lavery.
Author:
Lavery, Brian, 1945- author.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2013.
Call Number:
G540 .L29 2013
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First American edition.
ISBN:
9781465408419
9781409367970
Physical Description:
400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
The first ocean sailors to 1450 -- The age of exploration, 1450-1600 -- The age of empire, 1600-1815 -- Steam and emigration, 1815-1914 -- The wars on the oceans, 1914-1945 -- The global ocean, 1945-present.
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