For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century w The Boundless Sea - David Abulafia od authora David Abulafia a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
David Abulafia |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
1088 |
Rok vydání |
2020 |
Nakladatelství |
Portál |