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Conquest of the Seas By Frank C Bowen History & adventure of Sea & ships DJ map
Conquest of the Seas By Frank C Bowen History & adventure of Sea & ships w/Dust Jacket Includes loose map Profusely illustrated 1940 FIRST EDITION 423 pages
DISCOVERY, trade, privateering, romance, sea power-these are the stirring subjects with which this history deals. Passing through these pages is a magnificent cavalcade of seaborn barbarians, conquerors, explorers and daring seamen who discovered new lands, subjugated nations and fashioned the world's destiny by their resourcefulness and their courage.
Mr. Bowen, one of the world's best-known students of the sea and ships and author of many books on sail and steam, opens his narrative at the dawn of sea history. The panorama of naval achievement begins with the audacious Phoenicians. In the north the great era of exploration began with the Vikings, who roamed the Atlantic on voyages of trade and conquest and raided the shores of Northern Europe. Slowly the mists lifted above new horizons, and navigators sailed beyond dreaded frontiers. Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope. In the wake of the caravels of Columbus sailed other explorers. Finally Magellan's ships circled the globe. We see great nations fight for trade and colonies, for the gold of the Americas and the precious products of the Far East. In the nineteenth century we enter the halycon days of sail, famous for the picturesque East Indian and the flying clippers. But this was a century of rapid change and the narrative is brought to a close with an account of the evolution of ocean liners and the creation of the far-flung network of steamship lines enclosing the world today.
The volume's extraordinary wealth and range of illustrations is noteworthy. A. J. H. Macpherson of London has put his famous collection of maritime prints at the disposal of the author. This collection is known as the finest in the world, the result of decades of research, vigilance and purchase. In all, there are nearly two hundred old prints, drawings, engravings, charts and sketches.
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