David Abulafia

The Boundless Sea

A Human History of the Oceans

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Produktbeschreibung

A sweeping history of the world through its oceans and seas and their interconnections.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1088
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 166mm x 68mm
• Gewicht: 1725g
• ISBN-13: 9780199934980
• ISBN-10: 0199934983
• Artikelnr.: 55314897

Autorenporträt

David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean.

Rezensionen

In its mixture of supreme storytelling, beautifully drawn characters, fearless scope and rigorous scholarship, it ranks with the very best of world histories. ... From Morocco to Hawaii, Australia to the Persian Gulf, he delivers an intense and thrilling tour de force, filled with pirates, kings, scholars, monsters, conquerors, sailors, merchants, adventurers, slavers and slaves, taking us from the age of triremes and longships, hulks and cogs, dhows and junks, galleons and dreadnoughts, all the way up to the container ship.
Simon Sebag-Montefiore Daily Telegraph