Donald Johnson: The History of Seafaring
Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: This is a large format, meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and fully international history of mankind's seaborne voyages from the Phoenicians and Chinese to modern navies and round-the-world sailing yachts. Royal prestige, intellectual curiosity, commerce and territorial expansion all propelled mankind to make perilous voyages across unpredictable oceans to find out what lay beyond the…