The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times (Conway’s History of the Ship Series) – Professor Morrison Lage Prijs

‘The work that gave me most pleasure last year was undoubtedly the on-going Conway’s History of the Ship … intoxicating’ Jan Morris in The Independent The Age of the Galley charts the development from the earliest paleolithic craft to the classical tireme and its Roman and Byzantine successors. As a warship, the galley survived the coming of the three masted sailing ship, and later chapters are devoted to its mediaeval and Renaissance successors. An unprecedented line-up of over one hundred leading maritime…