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As three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by oceans and seas, so must much of the earth's history be woven from man's adventures on these waters. From the earliest records of history ships, whether large or small, long or short, low or tall, are known to have carried man to distant lands, helped him to ply his trade, enabled his enemies and afforded him pleasure. During that period which we now call ancient history, ships were a most important element in the lives of the ancient peoples. From the time of the early sailors of the Nile, the Minoan and Mycenaean merchants, Pytheas the explorer of the Mediterranean who travelled northward to Iceland and the British Isles, to the modern nuclear-powered submarines of today, man's attention has been held by the magical lure of the sea. Tracing the history and evolution of ships from the earliest known Egyptian boats to the Phoenician, Babylonian, Greek, Roman and Carthaginian galleys, Cecil Torr has captured the spirit of the ancient seamen, their inventivness and their daring. Basing his research on ancient literary references and ship representations in art he has examined every facet of the ships of old : their appearence, construction, endurance, means of locomotion as well as their uses in communication, commerce, exploration, and war. Among those described are Caesar's ships used in the invasion of Britain, the wooden triremes of the Athenian fleet, which though outnumbered by their eastern counterparts, attained a series of superb victories over the navy of the Persian empire, and the merchant ships which carried exotic wares and art treasures to the then uncivilized world of the north. A special study on Greek warships by W. W. Tarn, and several articles by such scholars as Tarn, Torr, A. B. Cook, W. Richardson and P. Newman on the Greek trireme are included. The trireme's arrangment of oars is one the most perplexing archaeological problems open to conjecture. Perhaps the infant science of underwater archaeology will bring to the surface one day the remains of one of these masters of the seas, making it possible at last to verify the conclusions of these historians. Many ships of antiquity are illustrated in photographs and drawings in a series of plates showing both ancient representations and modern research models, as well as models of ancient ahcors and steering devices. This is an exceptional and unique reference book for the historian, scholar, archaeologist, but especially for every lover of ships and the sea, whatever his occupation.

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