Description and condition: Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 256pp, bibliography, glossary, index, b/w illustrations. Very good, light bump to top corner and tail of spine, nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover. Contents: Covering the Mediterranean since pre-Classical times: paddled and oared ships before the Iron Age; the ancestry of the trireme 1200-525 BC; the trireme; Hellenistic oared warships 399-31 BC; fleets of the early Roman empire 31 BC-AD 342; late Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic galleys and fleets; from Dromon to Galea: Mediterranean bireme galleys AD 500-1300. Merchant galleys; the naval architecture and oar systems of Ancient galleys and of Medieval galleys; oar mechanics and oar power in ancient galleys; the geographical conditions of galley navigation in the Mediterranean; economics and logistics of galley warfare; naval installations; the Athenian navy in the Fourth century BC. Part of Conway's History of the Ship series. |
