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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Jacket condition: Fine
ISBN: 0851776345 / 9780851776347
Seller: Naval Marine Archive

Canada
About Item: Conway Maritime Press 1992, limited ed. no. 694/2000, vg/fine owner book plate, 256 p. ill. b/w 30 cm ; This book charts the development from the earliest paleolithic craft to the classical trireme, as well as major sections on the development and use of galleys. Included are the topics of: paddled and oared ships before the iron age, the ancestry of the trireme, the trireme, Hellenistic oared warships, fleets of the early Roman Empire, late Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic galleys and fleets, Mediterranean bireme galleys, merchant galleys, the naval architecture and oar systems of ancient, medieval, and later galleys, oar mechanics and oar power in ancient, medieval, and later galleys, galley navigation in the Mediterranean, economics and logistics of galley warfare, naval installations, and the Athenian navy in the Fourth Century BC. Heavy, over a kilo -requires more postage.
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