Ancient Ships (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ancient Ships For some while I have been at work upon a history of ancient shipping, and the following pages are meant to form a portion of that history. Assuming that ancient shipping means shipping in the Mediterranean between 1000 B.C. and 1000 A.D., and that a history of shipping should deal with everything connected with ships, I find that I have upon my hands a task of no small magnitude, and I do not quite know when this task will be accomplished. That being so, I am bringing out this portion of the work before the rest, this portion being tolerably complete already, and dealing with a question that may conveniently be discussed apart from any other, namely, the character of the ships themselves. Ancient ships have already formed the subject of dozens of books and pamphlets, and I necessarily have made myself acquainted with the bulk of this literature, from Dr Assmann's latest article in the Archäologisches Jahrbuch back to the treatise De Re Navali published by L. de Baif in 1536. I do not wish to underrate my obligations to previous writers on the subject, for they have informed me of many things that I was not at all likely to discover for myself. But, taking them altogether, I have found their works more voluminous than valuable. As a rule, they have relied too much upon their predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.