The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Autor David Abulafiaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199934980
ISBN-10: 0199934983
Pagini: 1088
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 64 mm
Greutate: 1.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10: 0199934983
Pagini: 1088
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 64 mm
Greutate: 1.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press, USA
Notă biografică
David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean.
Recenzii
In
its
mixture
of
supreme
storytelling,
beautifully
drawn
characters,
fearless
scope
and
rigorous
scholarship,
it
ranks
with
the
very
best
of
world
histories.
...
From
Morocco
to
Hawaii,
Australia
to
the
Persian
Gulf,
he
delivers
an
intense
and
thrilling
tour
de
force,
filled
with
pirates,
kings,
scholars,
monsters,
conquerors,
sailors,
merchants,
adventurers,
slavers
and
slaves,
taking
us
from
the
age
of
triremes
and
longships,
hulks
and
cogs,
dhows
and
junks,
galleons
and
dreadnoughts,
all
the
way
up
to
the
container
ship.
His grasp of the material is not so much encyclopaedic as breathtaking ... this is a tour de force. Writing history on this scale is challenging and enormously impressive; the author deserves applause for a magisterial achievement.
The Boundless Seais a work of immense scholarship, a forensic tribute to human enterprise. ... After reading this book your horizons will be wonderfully expanded, and you'll be as eager as the Ancient Mariner to retell its stories... Abulafia's masterpiece has the potential to alter the way we understand the human story and our place within it.
David Abulfia'sThe Boundless Seais a hugely ambitious masterpiece and quite rightly was the winner of this year's Wolfson prize for history. It is a mighty thassolo-gasm and a triumphant successor to his wonderful history of the Mediterranean. Remarkably, it manages to stitch together and make accessible some diverse and often intractable bits of ocean history, and is an astonishingly accomplished work of both scholarly synthesis and fluent narrative history.
Nothing less than a history of humanity written from the perspective of the sea
He tells, in broad strokes and pin-sharp detail, the story of how humanity has crossed the oceans to explore, trade and fight ... A big book, full of surprises. I can open it at any page and be engrossed in his incredible scholarship and vivid narrative.
His grasp of the material is not so much encyclopaedic as breathtaking ... this is a tour de force. Writing history on this scale is challenging and enormously impressive; the author deserves applause for a magisterial achievement.
The Boundless Seais a work of immense scholarship, a forensic tribute to human enterprise. ... After reading this book your horizons will be wonderfully expanded, and you'll be as eager as the Ancient Mariner to retell its stories... Abulafia's masterpiece has the potential to alter the way we understand the human story and our place within it.
David Abulfia'sThe Boundless Seais a hugely ambitious masterpiece and quite rightly was the winner of this year's Wolfson prize for history. It is a mighty thassolo-gasm and a triumphant successor to his wonderful history of the Mediterranean. Remarkably, it manages to stitch together and make accessible some diverse and often intractable bits of ocean history, and is an astonishingly accomplished work of both scholarly synthesis and fluent narrative history.
Nothing less than a history of humanity written from the perspective of the sea
He tells, in broad strokes and pin-sharp detail, the story of how humanity has crossed the oceans to explore, trade and fight ... A big book, full of surprises. I can open it at any page and be engrossed in his incredible scholarship and vivid narrative.