020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0690010958 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
910.45 Sou |
Item number |
15 |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
910.45 Sou |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Soule, Gardner |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Men who dared the Sea |
Remainder of title |
The ocean adventures of the Ancient Mariners |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Gardner Soule |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Thomas Y. Crowell Company |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1976 |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
262 p |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Includes index |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Title |
Foreward -- Somewhere, some time -- Far away, long ago -- Europe 10,000 years back -- North Europe, Stone age -- After seed are planted -- Ancient Europe and Egypt -- The mideast, 6000 B.C. -- The Mediterranean, 3500 B.C. -- Place and date unknown -- After 2000 B.C. -- About 1500 B.C. -- About 1500 B.C. Incidental Cargo -- The Ancient world, 1500-930 B.C. -- 900 B.C.? Sailors' tales -- 900-600 B.C. -- 600 years before Christ -- Greece 5008 B.C. -- The Atlantic, 510 and 470 B.C. -- The Mediterranean, 4008 B.C. -- Carthage, after 480 B.C. -- About 357 B.C. -- Mytilene, Lesbos, 3008 B.C. -- From Macedon, after 336 B.C. -- To the Arctic, 330 years B.C. -- Around 300 B.C. -- Alexandria, about 280 B.C. -- The Mediterranean, 2008 B.C. -- Alexandria, 200S B.C. -- 222-51 B.C. -- Sea of Sardinia, 100 B.C. -- Roman Empire, 63 B.C. - 21 A.D. -- First Century A.D. -- Italy, 79 A.D. A man watches a volcano -- Late first century A.D. -- Alexandria, 150 A.D. -- 150-500 A.D. -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
The author begins with prehistoric man and traces man's journey towards todays oceanography. This book includes sailors of the Stone and Bronze ages, in the ships of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Phoenicians, northern Europeans, and Romans. From the existing historical and archeological records the author tells why these mariners went to sea, how they navigated, what their ships were like, and what they learned on their journeys |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Information code or alphabet |
47715 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Seafaring life |
General subdivision |
History |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Navigation |
General subdivision |
History |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Oceanography |
General subdivision |
History |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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