Shipwreck 9781786827371, 9781786827364

‘From across the room I saw the President, torchlight playing across his visage. And the violins began, and the low rumb

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Shipwreck
9781786827371, 9781786827364

In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard w

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"Crawford's absorbing account of his first adventures in the salvage trade . . . an unusually likeable, as wel

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This volume describes the discovery in 2003 and excavation between 2004 and 2009 of a Minoan ship that sunk near the isl

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Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination

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Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience

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Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book

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The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutalit

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'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narr

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The Porticello Shipwreck provides unique information on seafaring technologies and trade practices at the turn of the fi

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Based on the exceptional and fascinating eyewitness account of a seventeenth-century Spanish padre, Dave Horner's S

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