The Thames was once Britain's shipbuilding heart, with its banks teeming with men toiling on wooden-hulled vessels. David Ramzan looks at three Greenwich-built ships, their design and their impact on the world.
Thousands of years before any of our modern methods of transport were invented man traveled by boat on the water. This book chronicles our nautical heritage for the last one hundred or so years and features everything from tall ships to small ships, working boats and lifeboats.
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.
