Hidden Treasures of the Sea (Book for World Explorers)
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: September 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780870446580
Subjects: Treasure-trove; Juvenile literature; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Social Studies - General; Underwater archaeology; Social Science - General; Archaeology; Shipwrecks
Genres: History and Geography
First sentence: For thousands of years, ships large and small have traveled the earth's waterways.
Description: An introduction to nautical archeology, focusing on social, cultural, and political history as exposed by shipwrecks from ancient times to the present.
Table of contents: value: Voyagers of the Ancient World / Dragonships and Sea Traders / Shalers and Men-of-War / When Pirates Roved the Seas / Lost Ships of Frontier America / A Liner Lost ... A Fleet Destroyed.