The History of Shipwrecks

by Angus Konstam

Book Overview

A beautiful, full-color guide to the ships and treasures at the bottom of the sea. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558219706
• ISBN13: 9781558219700
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

A Fascinating Journey

An excellent book for anyone with even a mild interest in shipwrecks. Great pictures and even maps. Great stories told of shipwrecks from every era. A great gift or coffee table book.

A "must read" for all martime historians & shipwreck buffs.

Published in association with the Mariners' Museum in Virginia and use maps, photos and color illustrations throughout to make for histories which are lively and probing, History Of Shipwrecks provides stories of shipwrecks and treasure locations around the world, from archaeology and treasure hunting to the history behind individual wrecks. An intriguing title.