On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500
Year: 2018 Language: english Author: Barry Cunliff Genre: Other Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 1st Edition ISBN: 9780198757894 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 640 Description: For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there--a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.
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On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500
Language: english
Author: Barry Cunliff
Genre: Other
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780198757894
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 640
Description: For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling.
The sea may give but it takes.
Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there--a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore.
The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.
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