From the Book - First U.S. edition.
Early sea traders of prehistory in the 2nd millennium BC
Royal cargoes at the time of Tutankhamun in the 14th century BC
Wine trade in the Golden Age of classical Greece in the 5th century BC
A shipwreck from the height of the Roan Empire in the 2nd century AD
Christianity and early Byzantium in the early 6th century AD
Tang China, the Land of Gold and Abbasid Islam in the 9th century AD
Viking seafaring and voyages of discovery in the 11th century AD
The Mary Rose (1545) : flagship of King Henry VIII
The Santo Cristo di Castello (1667) : lost masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age
The Royal Anne Galley (1721) : gold, piracy, and the African slave trade
HMS Terror (1848) : to the limit of endurance at the ends of the earth
SS Gairsoppa (1941) : courage and loss in the Battle of the Atlantic
