Firsthand accounts from around the world of
more than forty of the most important shipwreck
and sunken-city projects ever undertaken
Published in association with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology
The most exciting book ever published on the exploration of our seafaring past
From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the
Caribbean to the Red Sea, from northern Europe and the
northern United States to the Indian Ocean, archaeologists
vividly describe shipwrecks from centuries past, from the
oldest and deepest ever excavated to the remains of battles
in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II.
Readers will dive nearly 200 feet with Cemal Pulak on
a royal ship that sank over 3,300 years ago off the Aegean
coast of Turkey, and explore with Donny Hamilton the
streets and houses of the richest English colony in the
New World, the infamous pirate stronghold of Port Royal,
Jamaica, swallowed by the sea in 1692.They will accompany
famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer
of the Titanic, as he and Cheryl Ward search for shipwrecks
in the deep, oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea.
They will wade with archaeologist Fred Hocker through
mud along the bank of a South Carolina river, and then sail
through a gale with Susan Womer Katzev on a full-scale
replica of the best-preserved ancient Greek ship yet raised
from the depths of the Mediterranean.
The book describes the tragic loss, within sight of their
loved ones, of seamen returning home to Portugal in
1606, at the end of a two-year voyage to the East on the
Nossa Senhora dos Martires, and then describes the fate of
the crew of another Portuguese ship, the Santo Antonio de
Tanna, which sank off Mombasa, Kenya, while trying to
lift the siege of Fort Jesus by Omani Arabs in 1697. It
describes the foods, games,weapons, tools, and grooming
implements on a ship sailed by Bulgarian merchants
around AD 1025, carrying as cargo the largest known collections
of medieval Islamic glass and glazed pottery.
George F. Bass was the first person to excavate an
ancient ship in its entirety on the seabed. Since 1960 he
has excavated Bronze Age, Classical Greek, and Byzantine
wrecks. Founder of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology,
he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M
University. His books include Ships and
Shipwrecks of the Americas.
ISBN 0-500-05136-4
· 83/4" x 11"
· 433 illustrations, 410 in color · 256 pages · ARCHAEOLOGY / HISTORY
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