A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks (Paperback)

from Garp83

When A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks by Stewart Gordon showed up in my early reviewers program, I eagerly bid on it because the title at once conjured up for me Uluburun, the spectacular Bronze Age Mediterranean shipwreck that revealed to underwater archaeologists a long lost era of ...

from martinhughharvey

A fascinating concept and a very enjoyable book although I felt the 20th century a little short changed and disappointed me. Bu this is very readable and its insights were illuminating. It's interesting reading the ancient parts, substantially BCE and just after, how interconnected and 'global', ...

from waltzmn

C'mon, dropping a few names never hurt anyone. That's my biggest single nitpick with what is otherwise an interesting and engaging book. It never names names. For example, on pp. 147-148, it tells us that, some time around 1740, the French built a ship that shook up the then-ossified field of nav...

from BrokenTeepee

A very interesting premise for a book but the title is a bit of a misnomer. It's not so much 16 shipwrecks as much as the impact of 16 types of vessels on the economic times in which they were used. That doesn't detract from how interesting the individual stories were. Each chapter does detail a ...

from WCHagen

The author has selected an interesting and novel approach to the study of world history. Rather than following one crisis after another or the biographies of 'Great Men', Gordon has selected ship wrecks as a common focus to fill in the gaps often left by traditional historians. This does not give...