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Illustrated history of ships & boats /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casson, Lionel, 1914-2009 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, [1964]
Subjects:
Naval architecture > History.
Ships > Pictorial works.
Architecture navale > Histoire.
Naval architecture.
Ships.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Table of Contents:
  • The ancient world
  • Birth of the boat
  • On sails and sailing
  • Egypt
  • Greece and Rome: warships
  • Greece and Rome: the carrying of cargo
  • The great age of the sailing ship
  • The beginnings (A.D. 500
  • 1450)
  • Northern Europe
  • The Mediterranean
  • The full-rigged ship
  • Men-of-war
  • From Carrack to Galleon
  • Ships of the line
  • Warships under oars
  • Merchantmen
  • The swan song of sail
  • East of Suez
  • On bay and river
  • Northern Europe
  • America
  • The Mediterranean
  • The Near and Far East
  • The age of powder
  • Merchantmen
  • Iron men-of-war
  • Under the sea
  • Sport on the sea.