The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

by Lincoln Paine

Book Overview

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea--revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101970359
• ISBN13: 9781101970355
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.1"