Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. — 592 p. Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire, from skiffs and barges...
Conway Martime Press, 1995. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0785812687. For thousands of years organized naval warfare was the exclusive preserve of the galley. Oars provided a level of control and maneuverabilty beyond the capabilities of the contemporary sailing ship, and not experienced again until the era of the screw propeller. Precise control allowed squadrons and fleets to operate...
Conway Maritime Press, 2004. — 192 p. Researching back into prehistory and into the earliest evidence provided by archaeology, this volume explores the varied lines of development from the most primitive watercraft to the first real seagoing ships, from Northern Europe, through the Mediterranean to the Near and Far Easts. It traces the most primitive forms of boats - rafts,...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — Reprinted 2009, XXIV, 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-927186-3. This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the archaeology of rafts, boats, and ships from the Stone Age to Medieval times. All the regions of the world are covered, from Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Pacific.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1996.-xviii, 403 p. This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and discussion...
2nd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 348 p. Shortly before the launch of the reconstructed Greek warship, "Olympias", the first edition of The Athenian Trireme was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship. Since then, five seasons of experimental trials have been conducted on the ship under oar and sail, and the...
Brussel, The Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive committee - office of the secretary general, 1905, 136 p. Holland's struggle for life has been a constant battle against the invasion of water. If this has been, on. the one hand, an enemy to be feared, it has been, on the other, the natural line of communication above all others which has...
Brussel, The Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive committee - office of the secretary general, 1913, 166 p. Holland's struggle for life has been a constant battle against the invasion of water. If this has been, on. the one hand, an enemy to be feared, it has been, on the other, the natural line of communication above all others which has...
Brussel, The Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive committee - office of the secretary general, 1913, 222 p. Holland's struggle for life has been a constant battle against the invasion of water. If this has been, on. the one hand, an enemy to be feared, it has been, on the other, the natural line of communication above all others which has...
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