Ancient Boats In North-West Europe - The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500
Year: 2014 Language: english Author: McGrail S. Genre: History Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780582319752 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 358 Description: At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the Late Palaeolithic to the later Middle Ages, using evidence of excavations, but also documentary sources, iconographic and ethnographic evidence. In the process he answers such key questions as How were these boats built? What sort of environment were they used in? What speeds could they achieve? and how were they navigated? Additional info: Sean McGrail served in the Royal navy from 1945 to 1968, the last sixteen years as a pilot in the fleet Air Arm, and qualified as a Master Marina. After reading for a BA at the University of Bristol, he became Assistant Keeper at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and subsequently Chief Archaelogist and head of the museum's archaeological research centre. He moved to the University of Oxford as Professor of Maritime Archaeoogy in 1986 and since 1993 he has been Visiting Professor for the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton.
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1. Introduction 2. Types of water transport 3. Stability and seaworthiness 4. Trees and wood 5. Log rafts 6. Logboats 7. Bark boats 8. Wooden plank boats 9. Bundle rafts and boats 10. Hide boats and float rafts 11. Assessment of performance 12. Population, steering and anchoring 13. Seamanship 14. Pilotage and navigation Index
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Ancient Boats In North-West Europe - The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500
Language: english
Author: McGrail S.
Genre: History
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780582319752
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 358
Description: At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the Late Palaeolithic to the later Middle Ages, using evidence of excavations, but also documentary sources, iconographic and ethnographic evidence. In the process he answers such key questions as How were these boats built? What sort of environment were they used in? What speeds could they achieve? and how were they navigated?
Additional info: Sean McGrail served in the Royal navy from 1945 to 1968, the last sixteen years as a pilot in the fleet Air Arm, and qualified as a Master Marina. After reading for a BA at the University of Bristol, he became Assistant Keeper at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and subsequently Chief Archaelogist and head of the museum's archaeological research centre. He moved to the University of Oxford as Professor of Maritime Archaeoogy in 1986 and since 1993 he has been Visiting Professor for the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Types of water transport 3. Stability and seaworthiness 4. Trees and wood 5. Log rafts 6. Logboats 7. Bark boats 8. Wooden plank boats 9. Bundle rafts and boats 10. Hide boats and float rafts 11. Assessment of performance 12. Population, steering and anchoring 13. Seamanship 14. Pilotage and navigation IndexContents
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