The man who thought like a ship /
"J. Richard "Dick" Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. they were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2012.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Crooked Aleppo
- Dreams in paper and paste
- Short circuits
- The ships begin to speak
- Pieces of the puzzle
- "You're crazy! You'll starve to death"
- The reconstructor
- A dream in jeopardy
- Man's failure as a thinking animal
- Zoe's garage
- Settling into Mecca
- Studies in mud, charcoal, and bronze
- Genius and despair
- The laughter of Aristides
- The voyage ends
- Epilogue.