Description and condition: Brown boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 288pp, select bibliography, glossary, index, b/w illustrations. Very good, bump to bottom corners, nice bright clean pages throughout. In good, now protected, dustcover with a small closed tear to rear. Contents: Based on an earlier edition "The Archaeology of the Boat" published by A&C Black, 1976. The general theory: a new study; 6 boats and their builders; shells, skeletons and things-in-between. The roots of boatbuilding: the roots of boutbuilding; the 1st root the raft; the 2nd root the skin boat; the 3rd root the bark boat; the 4th root the logboat. Aspects of the evolution of boats and vessels in Europe, North America and Asia: the sewn plank boat; ships and boats of the Mediterranean from 3000 to 500 BC; the warships of the Mediterranean 500 to 31 BC; the European clinker-built boat before the Viking era; the round-hulled boat before the Viking era - a different tradition; the flat-bottomed boat before the Viking era; the Viking age; the Viking ships and the graveney boat; the clinker-built boat after the Viking period; the cog and the flat-bottomed boat after the Vikings; the mysterious hulk; skeletons everywhere |
