Ocean - Haywood, John
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A magisterial history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, embracing a timespan of some 168,000 years, and bringing together a wealth of critical themes and developments in world history from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens, to the histories of shipbuilding, navigation, fishing, trading, slavery, maritime exploration and nascent European imperialism. A history on a grand scale, Ocean offers the reader a feast of historical storytelling.

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Produktbeschreibung
A magisterial history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, embracing a timespan of some 168,000 years, and bringing together a wealth of critical themes and developments in world history from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens, to the histories of shipbuilding, navigation, fishing, trading, slavery, maritime exploration and nascent European imperialism. A history on a grand scale, Ocean offers the reader a feast of historical storytelling.
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Autorenporträt
John Haywood was educated at the universities of Lancaster, Cambridge and Copenhagen. He is an expert on the history of Dark Age Europe. His authorial credits include The New Atlas of World History (T&H ), The Penguin Atlas of the Vikings and Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241.
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Haywood has created a fascinating narrative, replete with half-forgotten explorers, in which Columbus is not the protagonist but just a footnote.