The Safeguard of the Sea
Subtitle: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 691
ISBN-13: 9780393319606
First sentence: The peoples and polities of the British Isles in the Dark Ages were linked not by the accident of dwelling in the same part of the world, but by the seas and rivers which provided their surest and swiftest means of travel.