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Book reviewed in this article:
Shipwreck Index of the British Isles: Volume 1 — Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset (Edition limited to 1000 of 10-volume series) RICHARD & BRIDGET LARN
Old Ironsides—The Rise, Decline & Resurrection of the USS Constitution THOMAS C. GILLMER; illustrations WILLIAM GILKERSON
The Sailing Navy List: all the Ships of the Royal Navy Built, Purchased and Captured, 1688–1860 DAVID LYON
Captain Cook's Endeavour (Conway's Anatomy of the Ship series) KARL HEINZ MARQUARDT
Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500–1860 JAN GLETE
Östersjöns Sjunkna Skepp. En Marinarkeologisk Tidsresa JOHAN RÖNNBY and JONATHAN ADAMS
Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models RON MCCARTHY
The Foundry: Excavations on Poole Waterfront 1986/7 DAVID R. WATKINS
Versunken in der Ostsee—Schiffe und Schätze auf dem Meeresgrund GÜNTER LANITZKI     

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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:
A Gallo-Roman Trading Vessel from Guernsey: The Excavation and Recovery of a Third Century Shipwreck, MARGARET RULE and JASON MONAGHAN
The Piraeus, ROBERT GARLAND
The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship, 1650–1840 ROBERT GARDINER (Ed.)
Catching the Tide—The Status and Future of Maritime Collections in North East Museums ALISON GALE
The Advent of Steam—The Merchant Steamship before 1900 BASIL GREENHILL (Ed.)
The Tudor Navy. An Administrative Political and Military History DAVID LOADES
Arte de Fabncar Reales
The Studland Bay Wreck—A Spanish Shipwreck off the Dorset Coast LILIAN LADLE     

Living with the past: the historic environment

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Living with the past: the historic environment DAVID BAKER
Watching the seaside. Essays on maritime anthropology A. H. J. PRINS
Yorktown's captive fleet JOHN O. SANDS
Merchant Sailing ships 1815–1850-Supremacy of sail, DAVID R. MAcGREGOR
A history of naval architecture JOHN FINCHAM     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Sibari; Thurii P. ZANCANI MONTUORO and G. PUGLIESE CARRATELLI (Eds)
Le Nave romane di Terrasini e l'aventura di Amilcare sul Monte Heirkte. Sicilia archeologica che scompare 3. VITTORIO GIUSTOLISI
Archaeology of the boat BASIL GREENHILL
Fast Sailing Ships 1775–1875 Their design and construction DAVID R. MacGREGOR
Sailing craft of the British Isles ROGER FINCH
Ships' figureheads PETER NORTON
Dating in archaeology S. FLEMING
Guide to the marine stations of the North Atlantic and European waters Part 2. The Mediterranean Basin Compiled by J. E. WEBB
L'Archéologie Sous-Marine: fouille d'une épave antique.     

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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:
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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Geography, Technology, and War—Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean 649–1571, JOHN H. PRYOR
The Seventy-four Gun Ship Vol. 4 JEAN BOUDRIOT (translated by David Roberts)
Ships and shipwrecks of the Americas. A history based on underwater archaeology G. F. BASS (Ed.)
Seesturm und Schiftbruch. Eine motivgeschichtliche Studie. SABINE MERTENS
Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries, S. R. RAO, Ed.
Le Cerf(cutter of 1779) J. BOUDRIOT and H. BERTI (English translation by H. Bartlett Wells)
Le Coureur (lugger of 1776) J. BOUDRIOT and H. BERTI
Innovation in Shipping and Trade STEPHEN FISHER, Ed.
Florida Archaeology no 4,1988: Gold Coins of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet-a numismatic study of the State of Florida Collection ALAN K. GRAIG with Appendix by FRANCIS KEITH
Historique de la Corvette 1650–1850: Monographie La Criole 1827 JEAN BOUDRIOT
The 32-Guo Frigate Essex PORTIA TAKAKJIAN
Ceramic Excavation Sites in Southeast Asia-a Preliminary Gazeteer JOHN S. GUY
Upchurch and Thameside Roman pottery: a ceramic typology for northern Kent, fist to third centuries A.D. JASON MONAGHAN
A Naval Expositor T. R. BLANCKLEY
Sternstunden der Schiffsarchiiologie PETER BAUMANN     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Rising Tide—Archaeology and Coastal Landscape, ALAN ABERG & CARENZA LEWIS (Eds)
Exploitation and Management of Marshland Landscapes in North West Europe: the Transformation of Coastal Wetlands during Roman and Medieval Periods, STEPHEN RIPPON, TIMM WESKI
Boats of Bengal: Eighteenth century portraits by Balthazar Solvyns, ROBERT L. HARDGRAVE Jr., BASIL GREENHILL
Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian Ships and Boats ( AIA Monographs, New Series 5 ), CHERYL WARD, DILWYN JONES
Seafaring and Civilization: Maritime Perspectives on World History, PHILIP de SOUZA, SARAH ARENSON
Fundert Ostsee—Eine maritim-archäologische Zeitreise entlung der deutschen Ostseeküste, MAIK-JENS SPRINGMANN, WALDEMAR OSSOWSKI
The Art and Archaeology of Venetian Boats and Ships ( Studies in Nautical Archaeology no. 5 ), LILLIAN RAY MARTIN, RICHARD BARKER
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. (Proceedings of a Conference at Somerville College, Oxford, 29th May, 1999), SEAN KINGSLEY, MICHAEL DECKER (Eds), CHERYL WARD
Raising the Dead: the Skeleton Crew of King Henry VIII's Great Ship, the Mary Rose , A. J. STIRLAND, COLIN MARTIN
A History of the Confederate Navy, RAIMONDO LURAGHI, ANDREW LAMBERT
The Piraeus, from the fifth to the first century BC, ROBERT GARLAND, DAVID BLACKMAN
Maritime Scotland, BRIAN LAVERY, COLIN MARTIN
A Dictionary of the World's Watercraft from Aak to Zumbra , THE MARINERS' MUSEUM, OWAIN T. P. ROBERTS
Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks, J. RICHARD STEFFY, ERIC RIETH
Deutsche Binnentankschiffahrt 1887–1994, INGO HEIDBRINK, ARVID GÖTTLICHER
Das Schiff von Mahdia im Licht Moderner Natur—und Technikwissenschaft, WILFRED STECHER, CHERYL WARD
Gestrandet bei Uelvesbüll: Wrackarchäologie in Nordfriesland, HANS JOACHIM KÜHN, FREDERICK M. HOCKER     

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Archaeonautica 10; 1990. B. LIOU and C. DOMERGUE
A world too vast: the four voyages of Columbus. ALEXANDER McKEE
Westward with Columbus. JOHN DYSON
The Ship of Christopher Columbus. XAVIER PASTOR
Le muée imaginaire de la marine antique. LUCIEN BASCH
Voiles et Voiliers au temps de Louis XIV. MICHEL VERGÉ-FRANCESCHI and ERIC RIETH
Hollandia Compendium. B. KIST, J. GAWRONSKI and D. STOKVIS-VAN BOETZELAER
Henry VIII. A European Court in England. DAVID STARKEY (Ed.)     

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Les Sorres X: Un Vaixell Medieval al Canal Olímpic de Rem (Castelldefels, Baix Llobregat) XIM RAURICH, MARCEL PUJOL et al.
Catchers and Corvettes: the Steam Whalecatcher in Peace & War, 1860–1960 JOHN H HARLAND
HMS Sirius 1790. An Illustrated Catalogue of Artefacts Recovered from the Wreck-Site at Norfolk Island MYRA STANBURY
Beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem: The Archaeology and Early History of Traditional Golgotha. Palestine Exploration Fund Monograph Series Maior 1. SHIMON GIBSON and JOAN E. TAYLOR
The Heavy Frigate: Volume 1, Eighteen-Pounder Frigates 1778–1800 ROBERT GARDINER
Viking Voyages to North America B. L. CLAUSEN (Ed.)
Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 16—1993 U. SCHNALL and U. FELDCAMP (Eds)
The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg 1500–1700 PENELOPE GOUK
Muddy Waters—Proceedings of the First Conference on the Submerged and Terrestrial Archaeology of Historic Shipping on the River Murray SARAH KENDERDINE (Ed.)
Die Schiffswerft von Henry Koch AG HEINZ HAAKER     

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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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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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Book reviewed in this article: The Emanuel Point Ship: Archaeological Investigations 1992–1995 and 1997–1998 (2 Vols). ROGER C. SMITH and contributors Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?. MARTIN CARVER La Navigation dans ?Antiquite. P. A. GIANFROTTA, X. NIETO, P. POMEY and A. TCHERNIA Nautical Archaeology on the Foreshore (Hulk recording on the Medway). GUSTAV MILNE, COLIN McKEWAN and DAMIAN GOODBURN Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 20 (1997): Zeitschrift des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums (English and French summaries). UWE SCHNALL (Ed.) II Mediterraneo nell'Eta Arcaica (originally La Mediterranee Archaique). MICHEL GRAS (Translated by Emmanuelle Greco) Maritime Wales—Cymru A'r Mor (No 19, 1997–8). DAVID JENKINS, BRYN PARRY et al.(Eds)     

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L'épave Grand-Ribaud D., A. HESNARD, M-B. CARRE, M. RIVAL, B. DANGREAUX, M. THINON, M. BLAUSTEIN and M. DUMONTIER
The evolution of the wooden ship, BASIL GREENHILL and SAM MANNING
The archaeology of the Hasholme logboat (Archaeological Journal 14, 1987: 69-155) MARTIN MILLETT and SEAN McGRAlL
History from the Sea, PETER THROCKMORTON
An Athenian trireme reconstructed-the British sea trials of Olympias, 1987 J. S. MORRISON and J. F. COATES. Eds
Guidelines on Acceptable Standards in Underwater Archaeology MARTIN DEAN
The Colonial Merchantmen Susan Constant 1605 (Anatomy of the Ship series) BRIAN LAVERY
Ship and Boat Models in Ancient Greece, PAUL FORSYTHE JOHNSTON
Local Boats-Fourth International Symposium, on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Porto 1985. OCTAVIO LIXA FILGUEIRAS (Ed.)
Ships of the American Revolution and their Models H. HAHN
The 20-gun Ship Blandford P. GOODWIN
The Eagle-an American Brig on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812 KEVIN J. CRISMAN
The Frigate Diana D. WHITE
Nelson's Navy-the Ship, Men and Organisations 1793-1815 BRIAN LAVERY
A Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles and Terms DILWYN JONES
Navy Board Ship Models 1650-1750 JOHN FRANKLIN
An Investigation of the Remains of the Paddle Wbeel Steamer John Fraser BESSEL J. VANDENHAZELL
Cultural Resources Magnetometer Survey and Testing Great Highway/Ocean Beach Seawall Project, San Francisco, California R. L. GEARHART II     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Wetland Revolution in Prehistory. BRYONY COLES
Le Navire Marchand sous l'ncien Régime: Vol I, etude historique; Vol 11, Monographie du Mercure . JEAN BOUDRIOT
Tropis II: Proceedings, 2nd International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity. HARRY TZALAS (Ed.)
The Art of Medieval Technology—Images of Noah the Shipbuilder. RICHARD W. UNGER
The Victorian Sailor (Shire Album 131). DAVID MARCOMBE
Toy Boats (Shire Album 193). BASIL HARLEY
Bateaux des côtes de France. FRANCOIS BEAUDOUIN     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Ancient trade and society LIONEL CASSON
Underwater expeditions ROB PALMER
Vol. I. Merchant sailing ships 1775–1815: sovereignty of sail DAVID R. MACGREGOR
Vol. III. Merchant sailing ships 1850–1875: heyday of sail DAVID R. MACGREGOR
Sweet track to Glastonbury—the Somerset levels in prehistory BRYONY and JOHN COLES
Die Galeonen PETER KIRSCH
La grande époque de la marine à voile MARTINE ACERRA and JEAN MEYER
Argusgrunden—a 7000-year-old settlement on the sea-floor off south-east Denmark A. FISCHER, U. MØHL, P. BENNIKE, C. MALMROS. H. TAUBER, J. SCHOU HANSEN and P. SMED
La révolution maritime du XIXe. Sièle
Warrior —restoring the world's first ironclad ANDREW LAMBERT
The immortal Warrior —Britain's first and last battleship JOHN WELLS
Drawings of the USS Monitor —a catalog and technical analysis ERNEST W. PETERKIN
Ships, seafaring and society—essays in maritime history TIMOTHY J. RUNYAN
Sejlskibsssfolk (sailing ship people) OLE MORTENSØN     

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Coasts and Seas of the United Kingdom—the JNCC Coastal Directories Project: Regional Report 12: Wales, Margam to Little Orme J. H. BARNES, C. F. ROBSON, S. S. KAZWOWSKA and J. P. DOODY (Eds) 239 pp., many B&W illustrations and maps Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Peterborough via Natural History Books Ltd, 2-3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5XN, UK. 1995. £75, ISBN 1-873701-86-1. (Set of 17 vols). ISBN 1 8737701-91-1 Arab Seafaring GEORGE F. HOURANI, revised and expanded by John Carswell 189 pp., maps, illustrations Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA. 1995, £14.95, ISBN 0-691-00032-8 Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from SHA 1995 Conference, Washington DC PAUL FORSYTHE JOHNSTON 186 pp., line illustrations Society for Historical Archaeology, PO Box 30446, Tucson, AZ 85751-0446, USA, 1995, US $20+p&p The Polyeric Quest—Renaissance & Baroque Theories about Ancient Men-of-war L. TH. LEHMANN 184 pp., 26 black-&-white illustrations Obtainable: L. Th. Lehmann, Keestraat 15B, 1012 BW Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1995, £20 or 35 Dfl. inc. postage. In Dutch as De queeste naar de multireme from De Bezige Bij, P.O.B. 75184, 1070 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dutch edition 45 Dfl., ISBN 90-9008462-2 Les Amphores en Gaule: production et circulation (Annales Littéraires de I'Université de Besançon 474) FANETTE LAUBENHEIMER (Ed.) 737 pp., illustrated Les Belles Lettres, 95 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, France, 1992, Fr.fr. 150, ISBN 2-251-60474-X The Heyday of Sail—Merchant Sailing Ship 1650-1830 (Conway's‘History of Ship’series) PHILIP BOSSCHEK 175 pp., numerous illustrations Conway Maritime Press, 33 John Street, London WCIN 2AT, UK. 1995, £28, ISBN 0-85177-562-4 The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia (Vol. 1 of PNM Studies in Archaeology of History) OLE CRUMLIN PEDERSEN and BIRGITTE THYE 196 pp., illustrated National Museum of Denmark, Department of Archaeology and Early History, 12, Frederiksholms Kanal, Copenhagen K, DK-1220, 1995, Dk.Kr.295, ISBN 87-893384-01-6, ISSN 0909-9506 Das Wrack der antike Schiffsfund von Mahdia (2 volumes) GISELA HELLEMPER SALIES (Ed.) 1127 pp., fully illustrated+32 colour plates Rheinland Verlag, Köln, 1994, N.P.G., ISBN 3-7927-1442-6 Archeologia Sottomarina alle Isole Eolie MENSUN BOUND 148 pp., 137 photographs, 61 plates Pungitopo Editrice, via Scaletta 2, 98060 Marina di Patti, Messina, Italy, 1992, It.L.30,000, ISBN 88-85328-39-3     

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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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Caesarea Maritima. A Retrospective after Two Millennia, AVNER RABAN and K. G. HOLLUM (Eds)
Schopper und Zillen, JENNY SARRAZIN and ANDRE VAN HOLK
Atlas over Fyns kyst i jernalder, vikingetid og middelalder, O. CRUMLIN-PEDERSEN et al.
'The Infernal Diver'
Archaologie unter Wasser: Forschungen und Berichte zur Unterwasserarchäologie zwischen Alpenrand-Seen und Nordmeer
Deepwater Archaeology. A Late-Roman Ship from Carthage and an Ancient Trade Route near Skerki Bank off Northwest Sicily
Drie schcpcn uit de lat middeleeuwen: Opgravingsverslagen 2, 3, 4 (Flevobericht 166). Vier werschuiten uit de zeventiende eeuw: Opgravingsverslagen 8, 9, 10 en 11 (Flevobericht 235)
Nelson's Battles: The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail
Sea Battles in Close-up: The Age of Nelson
Nelson's Favourite: HMS Agamemnon at War, 1781–1809
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
Navales du Bas Danube et de la Mer Noire au ler-6ème Siècles ( Colloquia Pontica 2 ), OCTAVIAN BOUNEGRU and MIHAIL ZAHARIADE