Explore tips, opinions, and features on Encyclopaedia of underwater and maritime sold at 102.43 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
From shipwrecks drowned cities and buried boats history often reveals itself through spectacular discoveries Archaeologists working in the deep ocean in lakes and rivers and on submerged sites around the world are discovering the remains of ships ritual deposits and ancient settlements This encyclopaedia is a comprehensive reference book on the discovery and recovery of the submerged past It is written by an international team of archaeologists and specialists often describing at first hand their own studies and excavations Over 450 entries cover the worlds major underwater and maritime sites submerged historic settlements sunken Pheonician Greek and Roman cities and harbours Viking ship burials ancient warships and merchant craft in the Mediterranean and shipwrecks from around the world from the vessels of the earliest explorers to warships sunk during atomic bomb tests The entries also include articles on the techniques and tools of underwater archaeology the scientific developments legislation and laws and international organizations and institutions This reference book should prove useful to anyone with an interest in the recovery of the past from beneath the water and the archaeology of ships boats and seafaring
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London 2003 1 volume1 As New Hardback Dust Jacket Quarto size 305 x 237 cm 805 gr XI75 pages The Romans created an empire encircling the Mediterranean to which they staked claim as Mare Nostrum our sea For 500 years their ships helped enlarge and consolidate this empire linking its farflung trading posts and keeping the peace Over the centuries many of these vessels were lost their timbers and cargoes lying forgotten on the seabed The excavation of these underwater sites has greatly enriched our knowledge of Roman maritime history as well as lending insights into the everyday lives of this empire of merchants engineers and soldiers This volume covers the most significant Roman wreck sites so far rediscovered among others Lake Nemi Comacchio and la Madrague de Giens Detailed surveys of the wrecks and their cargoes sometimes lasting many years have allowed archaeologists and historians to formulate new theories on the shipbuilding techniques naval strategy diet currency and trade routes of the Romans from the Republic to the last days of the Empire ref 89e97 ref 115
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This volume initiates a new series of books on maritime or underwater archaeology and as the editor of the series I welcome its appearance with great excitement It is appropriate that the first book of the series is a collection of articles intended for gradu ate or undergraduate courses in underwater archaeology since the growth in academic opportunities for students is an important sign of the vitality of this subdiscipline The layman will enjoy the book as well Academic and public interest in shipwrecks and other submerged archaeological sites is indicated by a number of factors Every year there are 80 to 90 research papers presented at the Society for Historical Archaeologys Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology and the Proceedings are published Public interest is shown by extensive press coverage of shipwreck investigations One of the most important advances in recent years has been the passage of the Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987 for the first time providing nationallevel law con cerning underwater archeological sites The legislation has withstood a number of legal challenges by commercial treasure salvors a very hopeful sign for the longterm pres ervation of this nonrenewable type of cultural resource The underwater archaeological discoveries of 1995 were particularly noteworthy The Texas Historical Commission discovered the Belle one of La Salles ships and the CSS Hunley was found by a joint project of South Carolina and a private nonprofit organization called NUMA
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Worldwide coverage of shipwrecks vesel remains on land and submerged settlement sites from prehistory to modern era
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François Valentijns Oud en Nieuw OostIndien Old and New East Indies has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia It is a veritable encyclopaedia bringing together an array of facts trivial and vital from a wide range of contemporary and earlier literature acknowledged and unacknowledged and contains valuable excerpts from contemporary documents of the Dutch East India Company and from private papers It is indeed a public archive Despite this historic character of the work it was never republished in full in a critical edition or made available in English translation It has therefore remained relatively unknown and little read except by the specialist wanting to quarry this mine of information for his particular purpose This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon now Sri Lanka in the fifth volume of Old and New East Indies The island of Ceylon is one of three areas that has received the most detailed treatment in the work with substantial sections devoted to geography topography society natural history and the record of historical tradition He also provides an almost contemporaneous account of the Dutch conquest of the island For his description of Ceylon Valentijn has had access to a variety of sources Sinalese Portuguese and Dutch and has presented this material to us with his characteristic attention to detail The volume now published with an introduction and explanatory notes is many things for many people a geographers manual a naturalists handbook an anthropologists collection of caste and custom an antiquarians record of tradition and a chroniclers narrative of history One of the most informative writings on Ceylon is made available for the first time to the Englishreading public
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A first of its kind photo history book on all of US Navy SEALs Naval Special Warfare From the CIA forefathers the OSS Maritime Units through to the Raiders and Underwater Demolition Units and into the development and birth of the SEALs to the present day SWCC units and more Because of unparalleled access given the authors and photographers this book offers a rare behindthescenes look of the training underwater vehicles operations in Iraq Afghanistan unique weapons and future of NSW So total and complete was the access the book reveals for the first time the now declassified documents detailing the establishment of the SEALs It features 931 unique and many exclusive photographs taken around the world by photographers Greg Mathieson Sr and Dave Gatley From the morning attack on the Pentagon on 911 to freezing mountain training in Alaska to the basement White House Situation Room to the ocean deaths these two photographers were given unprecedented access for over 5 full and exciting years to go past the restricted no camera signs to go deep into war zones to see it all
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The Sea Hunters II is a sequel to the authors The Sea Hunters also written with Craig Dirgo Cussler is one of the worlds foremost maritime diving experts and has formed a charitable institution NUMA the National Underwater and Marine Agency which searches for lost ships of historic significance NUMA is also the name of the government agency in the authors Dirk Pitt adventure books In this book Cussler relates NUMAs recent activities and takes his fiction into the sphere of fact and in a series of daring and audacious dives seeks to reclaim wrecks lost beneath the surface of sea lakes and swamps Each of the sections of this book contains both an exciting account of the loss of the wreck concerned and Cusslers attempt to bring it back to the surface Here Cussler and Dirgo recount the discovery of a seventeenthcentury manofwar Civil War Ironclads the wreck of the Marie Celeste the Carpathia the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic and JFKs PT 109 This book is sure to entrance Cusslers legions of devoted fans as well as the increasing number of people fascinated with extreme sports
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In 1996 Intersal Inc made one of the most important maritime discoveries in history when they located the infamous Queen Annes Revenge buried in shallow water off the coast of North Carolina While excavating the site divers with the Underwater Archaeology Branch recovered a bronze bell cannon and numerous eighteenth century artifacts from the former slave vessel turned pirate flagship They also found small amounts of gold dust but the stolen fortune of Captain Edward Teach aka the notorious Blackbeard remained a mystery Rose Rodriquez a direct descendant of Henri a former slave aboard the Queen Annes revenge is determined to wrap up the loose ends of her life with dignity and repair the severed relationship with her estranged daughter Isabelle Roses latest project includes sorting through an old leather portfolio filled with mementos from her childhood spent searching for Blackbeards lost treasure with her father Rose gives the portfolio to her granddaughter Sophie without knowing the seemingly innocuous gift would set off a chain reaction exposing family secrets of love betrayal and murder As Sophie unravels the tapestry of clues to Blackbeards real life she also discovers the truth concerning the disappearance of her father Alex Immersed in a maze of adventure shrouded by a deadly curse Sophie must decide what she is willing to risk for an opportunity at unimaginable wealth by solving the intriguing historic mystery surrounding the lost riches of the Queen Annes Revenge
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