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Book reviewed in this article:
Towards a Hermeneutics of Aegean Bronze Age Ship Imagery ( Peleus 6 ), MICHAEL WEDDE, CHERYL WARD
Prehistoric Intertidal Archaeology in the Welsh Severn Estuary ( CBA Research Report 120 ), MARTIN BELL, ASTRID CASELDINE, MEIKE NEUMANN VERY AN HEAL
Iron and Steamship Archaeology—Success and Failure on the Xantho (Plenum no. 4 ), Michael McCarthy
Experience of the Boat—the Wooden Shipbuilding Heritage of Croatia, V. SALAMON (Ed.), RICHARD BARKER
Ancient shipwrecks of the Adriatic: maritime transport during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD ( BAR International series 828 ), M. JURIŠI, A. J. PARKER
Shipbuilding and Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 18th and 19th Centuries. ( Proceedings of a conference held on Chios 1994 ), KOSTAS A. DAMIANIDIS (Ed), RICHARD BARKER
Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 22 (1999), UWE SCHNALL, URSULA FELDKAMP and ERIK HOOPS (Eds) M. K. STAMMERS
Sailing Ships: Designs and Re-creations, COLIN MUDIE, N. BURNINGHAM
The Tudor Navy 1485–1603: The Ships, Men and Organization, ARTHUR NELSON, DAVID LOADES
A Demonstration of the Diving Engine by Jacob Rowe, MICHAEL FARDELL and, NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds), RICHARD BARKER
The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring ( Mnemosyne Supplements 213 ), JAMIE MORTON, CHERYL WARD
A Maritime Fortress—The Collections of the Wynn Family at Belan Fort c . 1750–1950, MICHAEL STAMMERS, OWAIN T. P. ROBERTS
Altonas Blützeit und ihr jähes Ende—Die reederei Hinrich Dultz 1756–1807 ( Band 52 ), DAGMAR JESTRZEMSKI, M. K. STAMMERS
L'épave de Port Berteau II (Charente Maritime): un caboteur fluvio-maritime du haut Moyen Age et son contexte nautique, ERIC RIETH, CATHERINE CARRIERRE-DESBOIS and VIRGINIE SERNA RICHARD BARKER
Kleine bootjes en middeleeuws scheepshout met constructie details ( English summary ) KAREL VLIERMAN, FREDERICK M. HOCKER     

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Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks J. RICHARD STEFFY
500 Years of Changeunderwater Archaeology Proceedings from SHA Conference, Jamaica 1992 DONALD H. KEITH and TONI L. CARRELL (Eds)
Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times LIONEL CASSON
Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times (2nd edition) LIONEL CASSON
The Ancient Marinerdeafarers & Sea
The Naval Institute Guide to Maritime Museums of North America (with selected lighthouse, canal and lock museums) ROBERT H. SMITH
Version 2 (History and Archaeology) of Essentials of Statistical Methods T. P. HUTCHINSON     

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Book reviewed in this article:
"Each Man cried out to his God"—The specialized religion of Canaanite and Phoenician seafarers (Harvard Semitic Monographs 58). AARON JED BRODY
Excavating Ships of War. MENSUN BOUND (Ed.)
Scotland's Historic Shipwrecks (Historic Scotland series). COLIN MARTIN
The Archeology of the Frobisher Voyages. WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH and JACQUELINE S. OLIN (Eds)
Chinese Export Porcelain from the Wreck of the Sydney Cove (1797) (AIMA Special Publication no 12). MARK STANIFORTH and MIKE NASH
Scottish Fishing Boats (Shire Album 326). MATTHEW TANNER
Eisenzeitliche Schiffsausriistungen im Bereich von Nord- und Ostsee. KIRSTEN LANGENBACH
Shipwrecks of Encounter Bay and Backstairs Passage (AIMA Special Publication No. 8). COSMOS CORONEOS
Shipwrecks of Investigator Strait and the Lower Yorke Peninsula (AIMA Special Publication No. 9). COSMOS CORONEOS and ROBERT MCKINNON
Excavations at Caldicot, Gwent: Bronze Age Palaeochannels in the Lower Nedern Valley (CBA Research Report 108). NIGEL NAYLING and A. CASELDINE
Gwent Levels: The Evolution of a Wetland Landscape (CBA Research report 105). STEPHEN RIPPON
ANCODS Colloquium on Maritime Archaeology and Maritime History (Special Publication No 3, Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology). JEREMY GREEN, MYRA STANBURY and FEMME GAASTRA (Eds). Anchors: An Illustrated History, BETTY NELSON CURRYER
History of Warships from Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century. JAMES L. GEORGE
Ships of the World: an Historical Encyclopedia. LINCOLN PAINE     

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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650–1859, DAVID J. HEPPER
'De Zeehond', een Groninger Tjalk Gebouwd in 1878, Vergaan in 1886 (in Dutch with an English summary) R. OOSTING and K. VLIERMAN
Archeologia Subacquea, Studi, Ricerche e Documenti, 1 PIER0 GIANFROTTA and PAOLA PELAGATTI (Eds)
I Vikingernes Kelvand (in Danish) SOREN VADSTRUP
Medieval Boat and Ship Timbers from Dublin, SEAN MCGRAIL
Tall Ships, Two Rivers, A. OSLER and A. BARROW
The Wreck Diver's Guide to Sailing Ship Artifacts of the 19th Century, DAVID LEIGH STONE
Sail's Last Century-The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830–1930 (no 8 in Conway's 'History of the BASIL GREENHILL Ship' series)
The History of the French Frigate 1650–1850 JEAN BOUDRIOT, trans. DAVID H. ROBERTS
The first Frigates: Nine-Pounder and Twelve-Pounder Frigates 1748–1815 ROBERT GARDINER
Mersey Flats and Flatmen MICHAEL STAMMERS
Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly, RICHARD LARN     

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Archaeology Underwater. The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice. M. DEAN, B. FERRARI, I. OXLEY, M. REDKNAP and K. WATSON (Eds)
Waterfront Archaeology: Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Bristol, 1988 (CBA Research Report No. 74). G. L. GOOD, R. H. JONES and M. W. PONSFORD (Eds)
The Athlit Ram. LIONEL CASSON and J. RICHARD STEFFY (Eds) ELISHA LINDER (Principal Investigator)
The History of Underwater Exploration. ROBERT F. MARX
Mr Greathead's Lifeboats. ADRIAN G. OSLER
Galleon—The Great Ships of the Armada Era. PETER KIRSCH
The Trireme Trials 1988. Report on The Anglo Hellenic Sea Trials of Olympias . J. F. COATES, S. K. PLATIS and J. T. SHAW     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000–1650 (History of the Ship Series). RICHARD W. UNGER (Ed.)
The Årby Boat. CARL OLOF CEDERLUND (Ed.)
Medieval Ships and Shipping (No. 3 in The Archaeology of Medieval Britain series). GILLIAN HUTCHINSON
Crossroads in Ancient Shipbuilding: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 1991 (Oxbow Monograph 40). C. WESTERDAHL (Ed.)
Archaeonautica 11: L'épave D'Omonville-la-rouge (Manche) (pp 31–129). J. GUESNON
Zes Vatem Rundvlees mit het Scheepswrak Scheurrak S01 . J. T. ZEILER     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Skuldelev Ships I: Topography, Archaeology, History, Conservation and Display (Ships and Boats of the North: 4.1), OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN, OLAF OLSEN (Eds) III‐starred Captains—Flinders and Baudin, ANTHONY J. BROWN Facing the Ocean. The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC‐AD 1500, BARRY CUNLIFFE Archaeology and Seafaring: the Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period (ICHR Monograph 1), HAMINSHU PRABHA RAY The Sea in Antiquity (BAR International Series 899), G. J. OLIVER, R. BROCK, T. J. CORNELL, S. HODKINSON (Eds) Lost Warships: an archaeological tour of war at sea, JAMES P. DELGADO ‘A ship cast away about Alderney’—Investigation of an Elizabethan shipwreck, JASON MONAGHAN and, MENSUN BOUND (Eds) Archeologisch onderzoek in het tracé van Willemsspoortunnel te Rotterdam. Sluizen en schepen in de dam van de Rotte (BOO Rbalans 4, 2 vols), M. van TRIERUM, A. CARMIGGELT, A. J. GUIRAN (Eds) Schutz des Kulturerbes unter Wasser (IKUWA conference 1999 proceedings), CHRISTOPHER BÖRKER et al. (Eds) Construzione navale antica, PIER0 DELL'AMICO The Voyages of the Discovery: the illustrated history of Scott's ship, ANN SAVOURS Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History, DAVID M. YOUNG Deux siècles de constructions et chantiers navals (milieu XVIIe‐milieu XIXe) Proceedings of 124th Congrès des societés historiques et scientifiques, Nantes 1999), CHRISTIANE VILLAIN‐GANDOSSI (Ed.) Submarine Researches by C. A. Deane (1836), MICHAEL FARDELL & NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds.), JOHN BEVAN Naval Guns: 500 years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, HANS MEHL Lords of the East—the East India Company and its ships 1600–1874, JEAN SUTTON CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate raider, ANDREW BOWCOCK The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek, BARRY CUNLIFFE Trincomalee— the last of Nelson's frigates, ANDREW LAMBERT Galleons and Galleys (Cassel's History of Warfare Series), JOHN F. GUIIMARTIN Jr.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Boats of the World—from the Stone Age to Medieval Times, SEAN M c GRAIL
War, Technology and Experience aboard the USS Monitor , DAVID A. MINDELL, JOHN BROADWATER
The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade ( 2nd edition ), MARIA EUGENIA AUBET, LIONEL CASSON
England's Sea Fisheries: The Commercial Sea Fisheries of England and Wales since 1300, D. J. STARKEY, C. REID and, N. ASHCROFT (Eds), ADRIAN G. OSLER
The Bombay Country Ships 1790–1833, ANNE BULLEY, SEÁN M c GRAIL
The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait, YA'QUB YUSUF AL-HIJJI, DAVID GODDARD
The Vikings in Ireland, ANNE-CHRISTINE LARSEN (Ed.), JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL
The Lost City of Dvaraka, S. R. RAO, KENNETH M c PHERSON
Debating the Archaeological Heritage, ROBIN SKEATES, DELLA SCOTT-IRETON
The Lowland Wetlands of Cumbria ( NWW Survey no 6 ), D. HODGKINSON, E. HUCKERBY, R. MIDDLETON and, C. E. WELLS, R. W. COWELL
Medieval Naval Warfare 1000–1500, SUSAN ROSE, ERIC RIETH
The Wreck of the Belle —the Ruin of La Salle, ROBERT S. WEDDLE
Hin føroyski rórarbáturin: Sjómentir Fsroyingar I edri ti ( ASSF supplement XVVI ), ANDRAS MORTENSEN, MORTEN GØTHCHE
Maritime Tel Michal and Apollonia. Results of the 1989–1996 underwater survey ( BAR International Series 915 ), EVA GROSSMANN, CHERYL WARD
Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754–1834, ROBERT MALCOLMSON
Lords of the Lake—The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812–1814, ROBERT MALCOLMSON, ANDREW LAMBERT
Down the River to the Sea ( Eighth International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology, Gdansk 1997 ), JERZY LITWIN (Ed.), JEREMY GREEN     

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Coití. Logboats from Northern Ireland: ( Northern Ireland Archaeological Monographs 4 ) MALCOLM F. FRY
Studia nad lodziami jednopiennymi z obszaru Polski (Study on Logboats from Poland): ( Polish Maritime Museum's Proceedings 11 ) WALDEMAR OSSOWSKI
Legal Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National and International Perspectives SARAH DROMGOOLE (Ed.)
Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World PHILIP DE SOUZA
Maritime Topography and the Medieval Town JAN BILL and BIRTHE I. CLAUSEN (Eds)
The Magor Pill Medieval Wreck ( CBA Research Report 115) NIGEL NAYLING
HMS Victory: her Construction, Career and Restoration ALAN McGOWAN with drawings by JOHN McKAY
Report for the Sri Lanka Department of Archaeology: Galle Harbour Project 1996–1997: ( ANCEMA Special Paper no 4 ) J. GREEN, S. DEVENDRA, R. PARTHESIUS (Eds)
Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain and Ireland: Design, History and Evolution MICHAEL SMYLIE
The Boats of Men of War W. E. MAY
Two Prams Wrecked on the Zuider Zee in the Late Eighteenth Century KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN-NEYLAND and ROBERT NEYLAND
A Late-Sixteenth-Century Freighter from the Workumer Nieuwland Polder in Workum, Friesland ROBERT NEYLAND and KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN-NEYLAND
Prince Rupert's Patent guns SARAH BARTER BAILEY
Excavacions arquelbgiques subaquatiques a Cala Culip 2, Culip VI ( Monografies del CASC 1 ) HUG PALOU, ERIC REITH, MANU IZAGUIRRE, ANNA JOVER, XAVIER NIETO, MARCEL PUJOL, XIM RAURICH and CRUZ APESTIGUI     

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Book reviewed in this article: Archaeological heritage management in Dutch waters: exploratory studies (Scheepsarcheologie V), THIJS MAARLEVELD II Manoscritto dell'Abbazia di Finalpia: una fonte par I'archeologia navale dei primo Seicento, FURIO CICILIOT Underwater Archaeology, 1998 (Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology meeting, Atlanta), LAWRENCE E. BABITS, CATHERINE FACH and RYAN HARRIS (Eds) The persistence of sail in the age of steam; underwater archaeological evidence from the Dry Tortugas (Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology), DONNA J. SOUZA The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand, SUSAN LAWRENCE and MARK STANIFORTH (Eds) Diving up the Human Past—perspectives of maritime archaeology with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996 (BAR International Series 749), BRUNO E. J. S. WERZ Transport in Ancient Egypt, ROBERT PARTRIDGE The First Antarctic Winter, JANET CRAWFORD Icy Heritage, DAVID L. HARROWFIELD The earliest recorded bridge at Rochester (BAR British Series 252), COLIN FLIGHT Les archéologues aux pieds palmés: la fabuleuse histoire de la fouille archéologique d'un baleinier Basque du 16^e siècle échoué au Labrador, MARC‐ANDRÉ BERNIER and ROBERT GRENIER The Search for the North West Passage, ANN SAVOURS Deutsche Fischdampfer Technik Entwicklung Einsatz Schiffsregister (German fishing trawlers), WOLFGANG WALTER The material culture of steamboat passengers: archaeological evidence from the Missouri River (Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology), ANNALIES CORBIN Ships fittings and rigging components recovered from the 1983 underwater archaeological excavation at Red Bay, Labrador (Parks Service Canada Research Bulletin no 300, January 1993), CHARLES S. BRADBURY Texas’ Liberty Ships: from World War II working‐class heroes to artificial reefs (Texas Parks & Wildlife Bulletin no 99.1), J. BARTO ARNOLD III     

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Books reviewed: HORST NOWACKI and MATTEO VALLERIANI (eds), Shipbuilding Practice and Ship Design Methods from the Renaissance to the 18th Century—a Workshop Report MARK W. HOLLEY, The Artificial Islets/Crannogs of the Central Inner Hebrides ALEX G. C. HALE, Scottish Marine Crannogs EUAN W. MACKIE, The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC–AD 500. Architecture and Material Culture. Part 1: The Orkney and Shetland Isles YACOUB YOUSEF AL‐HIJJI, VASSILIOS CHRISTIDES and others (eds), Aspects of Arab Seafaring. An Attempt to Fill in the Gaps of Maritime History DIONISIUS A. AGIUS, In the Wake of the Dhow: the Arabian Gulf and Oman ERIK GILBERT, Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar MADELEINE J. DONACHIE, Household Ceramics at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655–1692 EDWINA BOULT, Christian's Fleet: A Dorset Shipping Tragedy SUSANNE MULLER‐WIERING, Segeltuch und Emballage: Textilien in Mittalterlichen Warentransport auf Nord‐ und Ostsee (English summary and captions) ELENA FLAVIA CASTAGNINO BERLINGHIERI, The Aeolian Islands: Crossroads of Mediterranean Maritime Routes. A Survey of their Maritime Archaeology and Topography from the Prehistoric to the Roman Periods STEFANO BRUNI (ed.), Le Navi Antiche di Pisa: ad un Anno dall’ Inizio delle Ricerche ULRICH SCHAAFF, Münzen der Römischen Kaiserzeit mit Schiffsdarstellungen im Römisch‐Germanischen Zentralmuseum LAWRENCE W. MOTT, Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: the Catalan‐Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers OLWYN OWEN, MAGNAR DALLAND, and others, Scar: A Viking Boat Burial on Sanday, Orkney NICHOLAS TRACY and MARTIN ROBSON (eds), The Age of Sail: The International Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship, Vol. 2 HEINRICH CLEMENS KONEN, Classis Germanica: Die Römische Rheinflotte im 1–3 Jahrhundert n. Chr. ANDREW PEARSON, The Construction of the Saxon Shore Forts ANDREW PEARSON, The Roman Shore Forts: Coastal Defences of Southern Britain VARIOUS AUTHORS, Bilan Scientifique du Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous‐Marines 1998, 1999 and 2002 COLIN BREEN and WES FORSYTHE, Boats and Shipwrecks of Ireland UWE SCHNALL, URSULA FELDKAMP, ERIK HOOPS (eds), Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv no. 23 (2000) D. FINAMORE (ed.), Maritime History as World History JOHN D. HARBRON, Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy: the Spanish Experience of Sea Power SCOTT M. FITZPATRICK (ed.), Voyages of Discovery—The Archaeology of Islands LAURENT JACQUES COSTA, Corse Préhistorique: Peuplement d’une Île et Modes de Vie des Sociétes Insulaires BRIAN LAVERY, Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar     

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The Earliest Ships: the Evolution of Boats into Ships. A. E. CHRISTENSEN (Ed.)
Viking-Age Ships and Shipbuilding in Hedeby/Haithabu and Schleswig (Ships and Boats of the North-vol. 2) OLE CRUMLIN-PEDERSEN et ul.
The Development of the Rudder–a Technological Tale. LAWRENCE V. MOTT
… Van Zintelen, van Zintelroeden endc Mossen …'A caulking method used as an aid to dating shipwrecks from the Hanseatic period (Scheepsarcheologie I) . KAREL VLIERMAN
L'Épave c'Eà Saint-Raphael, Ve siècle ap. J.-C (Archaeonautica, 13) . CLAUDE SANTAMARIA
Europe and the Sea. MICHAEL MOLLAT du JOURDIN Translation by Teresa Lavender Fagan
Military aspects of Scandinavian society AD 1-1300. ANNE NORGARD JWRGENSEN and BIRTHE L. CLAUSEN
A Distant Storm: the Four Days'Battle of 1666. FRANK L. FOX
The Logboats of Scotland–with notes on related artefact types. ROBERT J. C. MOWAT
Cahiers d'Archeologie Subaquatique XIII (1997). J-P. JONCHERAY (Ed.)     

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‘The Good Ship’—Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England 1200—1520 IAN FRIEL 232 pp., freely illustrated British Museum Press, 1995, £25, ISBN 0-7141-0574-0 Nautica Genovese—Tipologia delle Imbarcazioni di Varazze allo fine del Medioevo FURIO CICILIOT 112 pp., some illustrations G.R.I.F.L., c/o Biblioteca Comunale, via Colletto 76, Rocchetta Cairo (SV), 17010 Italy, 1993, L. 24,000. A Spirit of Enquiry—Essays for Ted Wright (WARP Occasional Paper 7) JOHN COLES, VALERIE FENWICK & GILLIAN HUTCHINSON (Eds) 96 pp., illustrated WARP, NAS, NMM at University of Exeter. Available via NAS, 19 College Road, Portsmouth, Hants PO1 3LJ, UK, £8 including post, £9 overseas, ISBN 0-9519117-1-6 Ships of the Port of London—First to Eleventh Centuries AD (English Heritage Archaeological Report No. 3) PETER MARSDEN 237 pp, 175 illustrations English Heritage, London, available via English Heritage Postal Sales, PO Box 229, Northampton NN6 9RY, UK, 1994, £35, ISBN 1-85074470-X Alonquin Birchbank Canoe (Shire Ethnography no. 4) DAVID GIDMARK 64 pp., 50 black-&-white illustrations Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP17 9AJ, 1988, £3.50, ISBN 0-85263-940-6 The Age of the Galley—Mediterranean Oared Vessels since Pre-classical Times (Conway‘History of the Ship’series) JOHN MORRISON (Ed.) 256 pp., 275 illustrations Conway Maritime Press, 33 John Street, London WC1 2AT, 1995, £28, ISBN 0-85177-554-3 Medieval Ship Archaeology C. O. CEDERLUND (Ed.). Linguistic check: J. ADAMS, C. DOBBS 121 pp., 56 illustrations Department of Archaeology, University of Stockholm, 1995, £8 including postage from the Nautical Archaeology Society, c/o Mary Rose Trust, H. M. Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LJ, UK, ISBN 91-7153-308-7 Wetland Management—A Survey for English Heritage (WARP paper 9) BRYONY COLES 126 pp. WARP c/o Department of History & Archaeology, University of Exeter, EX4 4QH, 1995, £8+£2p&p ISBN 0-951-9117-2-4 The Archaeology of Ships of War. (International Maritime Archaeology series, vol. 1) MENSUN BOUND (Ed.) 192 pp., numerous illustrations Anthony Nelson, Oswestry, Shropshire, 1995, £.32, ISBN 0-904614-52-2 Lighthouses (Shire Album 312) LYNN F. PEARSON 32 pp., illustrated. Shire Publications Ltd, Princes Risborough, Bucks HP27 9AA, UK, 1995, £2.25, ISBN 0-7478-0275-0     

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Books reviewed: PETER CLARK (ed.), Dover Bronze Age Boat. PETER CLARK (ed.), The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe. NIGEL NAYLING and SEÁN McGRAIL, The Barland's Farm Romano‐Celtic Boat. RONALD BOCKIUS, Die Römerzeitlichen Schiffsfunde von Oberstimm (Bayern). OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN and ATHENA TRAKADAS (eds), Hjortspring—A Pre‐Roman Iron Age Warship in Context. LARS JORGENSEN et al. (eds), The Spoils of Victory: The North in the Shadow of the Roman Empire. ANNE C. SORENSEN, Ladby—a Danish Ship‐grave from the Viking Age. JEREMY GREEN, Maritime Archaeology: A Technical Handbook. BRIAN LAVERY, Ship. JEAN‐PAUL BRAVARD and MICHEL MAGNY (eds), Les Fleuves ont une Histoire: Paléo‐environnement des Rivières et des Lacs depuis 15,000 ans. STEFANO MEDAS, De Rebus Nauticis. L’arte della navigazione nel mondo antico. JOHN BLAKE, The Sea Chart—An Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts. GEOFF HUNT, The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt: Painter of the Naval World of Nelson and Patrick O’Brian. SEÁN McGRAIL, Boats of the World—From the Stone Age to Medieval Times. JOSÉ MARIA UNSAIN (ed.), Urpeko Oroimena: Euskel Herriko Urpeko Arkeologia eta Ondarea (la memoria sumergida; arqueología y patrimonia subacuático vasco). SEAN KINGSLEY, Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land: Processes and Parameters. DAVID RUDLING (ed.), The Archaeology of Sussex to AD 2000. KIERON HEARD with DAMIAN GOODBURN, Investigating the Maritime History of Rotherhithe: Excavations at Pacific Wharf, 165 Rotherhithe Street, Southwark. GEORGE INDRUSZIEWCKI, Man, Ship, Landscape: Ships and Seafaring in the Oder Mouth Area AD 400–1400: a case‐study of an ideological context. MICHEL L’HOUR (ed.), The Sunken Treasures of Brunei Darussalem. TØNNES BEKKER‐NIELSEN (ed.), Ancient Fishing and Fish Processing in the Black Sea Region. DAVID EVANS, Building the Steam Navy: Dockyards, Technology and the Creation of the Victorian Battle Fleet 1830–1906. DAVID LYON and RIF WINFIELD, The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. EDWYN GRAY, Nineteenth Century Torpedoes and their Inventors. MATTHEW A. RUSSELL, Comet: Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report. Channel Islands National Park. MICHAEL STAMMERS, End of Voyages: the Afterlife of a Ship. L. M. COLLINS, The Sinking of the Titanic: the Mystery Solved. MÅRTEN TRIEWALD, The Art of Living Under Water.     

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From Egypt to Mesopotamia: A Study of Predynastic Trade Routes: ( No. 4 in Studies in Nautical Archaeology ), SAMUEL MARK
Communication and Commerce along the Western Sealanes AD 400–800: ( BAR International Series 654 ), JONATHAN M. WOODING
Furstens fartyg ( The Prince's Ship ), JONATHAN ADAMS and JOHAN RÖNNBY
Archeologie van de binnenvaart: wonen en werken aan boord van binnenvaartschepen (1600–1900): ( Scheppsarcheoligie IV ), A. F. L. VAN HOLK
The History of the Ship, RICHARD WOODMAN
The Schooner—its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present, DAVID R. MacGREGOR
Roar Ege: Skuldelev 3 skibet som arkaeologisk eksperiment, ERIK ANDERSEN, OLE CUMLIN-PEDERSEN, SOREN VADSTRUP and MAX VINNER
Greenwich Time and the Longitude, DEREK HOWSE     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Review article: Underwater archaeology in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands: La Nave Romano-republicana de la Colonia de Sant Jordi . D. CERDIÁ JUAN
L'Épave Sant Jordi 1 (Majorque). D. COLLS
El Barco de El Sec (Costa de Calviá, Mallorca). Estudio de los materiales. A. ARRIBAS, M. G. TRIAS, D. CERDÁ and J. DE HOZ
Excavacions Arqueològiques Subaquàtiques a Cala Culip, I. J. NIETO PRIETO and eight co-authors
Die wirkliche Reise des Odysseus. ARMIN and HANS-HELMUT WOLF
West Coast Shipping (History in Camera 4). M.K. STAMMERS
East Coast Shipping (History in Camera 1). H. A. C. HEDGES
Those Vulgar Tubes. External Sanitary Accommodations Aboard European Ships of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. Studies in Nautical Archaeology, No. 1. JOE J. SIMMONS III
Organic Contents of Ancient Vases; Materials Analysis and Archaeological Investigation. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Vol. 7 (1990). W. R. BIERS and P. E. McGOVERN (Eds)     

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Books reviewed: G. F. BASS, S. D. MATTHEWS, J. R. STEFFY, and F. H. VAN DOORNINCK Jr, Serçe Liman?: an Eleventh‐Century Shipwreck. Volume I: The Ship and its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers YAACOV KAHANOV and ELISHA LINDER, The Ma’agan Mikhael Ship. The Recovery of a 2400‐Year‐Old Merchantman. Final Report Volume II HORST NOWACKI, Archimedes and Ship Stability HORST NOWACKI and LARRIE D. FERREIRO, Historical Roots of the Theory of Hydrostatic Stability of Ships SIMON HILLSON, Teeth VICKI CUMMINGS and CHRIS FOWLER (eds), The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: Materiality and Traditions of Practice JOHAN HENRIK SCHREINER, Two Battles and Two Bills: Marathon and the Athenian Fleet ALEC TILLEY, Seafaring on the Ancient Mediterranean: New Thoughts on Triremes and Other Ancient Ships DAVID J. P. MASON, Roman Britain and the Roman Navy R. A. HOUSLEY and G. COLES (eds), Atlantic Connections and Adaptations. Economies, Environments and Subsistence in Lands Bordering the North Atlantic JOHAN RÖNNBY (ed.), By the Water: Archaeological Perspectives on Human Strategies around the Baltic Sea ANGELO FORTE, RICHARD ORAM, and FREDERIK PEDERSEN, Viking Empires JOHN HINES, ALAN LANE and MARK REDKNAP (eds), Land Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking Period Settlement BENJAMIN HUDSON, Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic GREGORY G. MONKS (ed.), The Exploitation and Cultural Importance of Sea Mammals UWE SCHALL, URSULA FELDKAMP, ERIK HOOPS, Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv No. 26 (2003) PATRICE POMEY and ÉRIC RIETH, L’Archéologie Navale FRANCISCO CONTENTE DOMINGUES, Os Navios do Mar Oceano. Teoria e Empiria na Arquitectura Naval Portuguesa dos séculos XVI e XVII FILIPE VIEIRA de CASTRO, The Pepper Wreck: a Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River ALEX HILDRED (ed.), Report on the Excavation of the Dutch East Indiaman Vliegent Hart JOHN ROBSON, The Captain Cook Encyclopaedia MYRA STANBURY and JEREMY GREEN (eds), Lapérouse and the Loss of the Astrolabe and the Boussole (1788): Reports of the 1986 and 1990 Investigations of the Shipwrecks at Vanikoro, Solomon Islands MICHEL DAEFFLER, Formes de Carène et Navires de Combat: L’invention du Vaisseau de Ligne en Angleterre (1560–1642) NICHOLAS BLAKE, Steering to Glory: a Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line SPENCER TUCKER, Stephen Decatur—‘A Life Bold and Daring’ SARAH C. WOLFE, Naval Edged Weapons in the Age of Fighting Sail 1775–1865 RICHARD TUFFIN, GREG JACKMAN and JULIA CLARK (eds), A Harbour Large Enough to Admit a Whole Fleet: The Maritime History and Archaeology of Port Arthur ALASTAIR R. WALKER, Stroma Yoles: their construction and development JANE DOWNES and ANNE RITCHIE, Sea Change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the Later Iron Age AD 300–600 MARINELLA PASQUINUCCI and TIMM WESKI, Close Encounters: Sea‐ and Riverborne Trade, Ports and Hinterlands, Ship Construction and Navigation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and in Modern Time KLAUS BRAND and HANS JOACHIM KÜHN, Der Prahm aus dem Hafen von Haithabu. Beiträge zu Antiken und Mittelalterlichen Flachbodenschiffen JAMES DODDS and JAMES MOORE, Building the Wooden Fighting Ship     

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Sewn plank boats: archaeological and ethnographic papers (based on those presented at a conference at Greenwich in November 1984; Bar International Series 276) S. McGRAIL and E. KENTLEY (Eds)
Tarquin's ship ALEXANDER McKEE
The search for the oldest shipwrecks in the world DAVID THORNTON
The shorter science and civilisation in China, vol. 3, nautics (abridgement of Joseph Needham's original) COLIN RONAN
Les hommes et la mer dans I'Europe du nord-ouest de I'antiquitéà nos jours A. LOTTIN, J.-C. HOCQUE and STEPHANIE LEBECQ (Eds)
Early American ships JOHN FITZHUGH MILLER
Marine archaeology and the diver ANDY LOCKERY
The discovery of the Titanic ROBERT D. BALLARD and RICK ARCHBOLD