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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN TWELVE SHIPWRECKS - D...

The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's
doomed HMS Terror. The German battleship The Bismarck destroyed by Allied forces. This is the
story of some of the greatest underwater discoveries of all time  from the Bronze Age world of
Troy and Caesar's Rome  through Viking warriors and the court of Henry VIII  to the exploration
of the Arctic and World War Two. 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 archeologist 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.

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