num_pages: 680
description: From Noah's Ark to the Exxon Valdez, this reference describes the important roles that ships have played in human history and explores in great detail more than one thousand vessels that have helped shape the modern world.
language: English
title: Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia
titlecomplete: Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia
genres: Maritime, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt