The Boundless Sea

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The Boundless Sea

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4195-627-4

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241956274

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1088

Fecha de publicación: 2020-10-01

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Boundless Sea

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-265-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141992655

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 2462

Fecha de publicación: 2019-12-19

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Boundless Sea

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4197-209-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141972091

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1088

Fecha de publicación: 2019-10-03

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Boundless Sea

David Abulafia

Primera publicación: 2019-10-03

For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, David Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. And today, as plastic refuse covers thousands of square miles of the waters, and once exotic trading cities and outposts are replaced by vast, mechanized container ports, he asks - what next for our oceans and our world?