THE BOUNDLESS SEA

For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - f or the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and a cross the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abu lafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational ski lls long...[Llegir més]