E-book
Beyond the blue horizon how the earliest mariners unlocked the secrets of the oceans
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608193851 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1608193853 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xx, 313 p.) : ill., maps. - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "The sands and flats are discovered" -- Across the Pacific. Sunda and Sahul ; "Butterfly wings scattered over the water" ; A pattern of islands -- Poseidon's waters. A world of ceaseless movement ; Timber and mekku-stones -- The monsoon world. The Erythraean Sea ; "A place of great traffic" ; "We spread our cloudlike sails aloft" -- Turbulent waters in the North. Seascapes of ancestors ; "Storms fell on the stern in icy feathers" -- The Pacific to the West. The Aleutians : "The sea becomes very high" ; Raven releases the fish ; The fiery pool and the spiny oyster -- Of fish and portolans. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Navigation, Prehistoric Sea Peoples -- History Ocean travel -- History |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
