... Museum Company. body was perhaps that of Anglo-Saxon king Raedwald, of the kingdom of the East Angles, who ruled c. ... We have only the ghost of the hull to work with, but enough to establish that it was double-ended, with high bow ...
In Beyond the Blue Horizon, bestselling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding terrain.This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier ...
In his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the...
Written with an infectious passion, this is an extraordinarily original and genre-defining piece of travel writing by one of our most highly respected travel correspondents. ‘Whether being mown down by stampeding Baghdad-bound passengers ...
The best-selling author of The Great Warming provides a vibrant history of how early seafarers first mastered long-distance navigation with civilization-changing effectiveness, providing vivid descriptions of early ocean crossings by myriad ...
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Written with an infectious passion, this is an extraordinarily original and genre-defining piece of travel writing by one of the world's most highly respected travel correspondents.
Beyond the Blue Horizon
We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages.