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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024

'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors

'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times

From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery and endurance aboard HMS Gairsoppa in World War Two, these are the stories of some of the greatest underwater discoveries of all time. A rich and exciting narrative, this is not just the story of those ships and the people who sailed on them, the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate. This is also the story of the spread of people, religion and ideas around the world, a story of colonialism and migration which continues today.

Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, renowned maritime archaeologist David Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past to tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.©2024 David Gibbins (P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited Engineering Maritime History & Piracy World Royalty Viking

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this book will have you traveling through time and space in a incredible journey of courage with fascinating stories of vessels, peoples and historical context in which they sailed

Fascinating!

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Well written and packed with maritime facts this entertaining book was performed clearly and competently by the narrator.

Fascinating Shipwrecks

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Interesting subject dulled all the self references. Tried to continue several times but am now bored and will return.

all about the author

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Incredibly poorly written even for an academic, with a narrator who sounds like an overly enthusiastic vicar

Really bad

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