Abstract
IN the story of the world there have been numerous points or episodes which very aptly have been called ‘seamarks’ of history. In this book the author's aim has been to bring many of the more notable of those seamarks out of the obscurity which all too long has enveloped them. There is much justification for a statement in the preface that fame and riches have been for military heroes who, in general, effected little more than temporary shufflings of boundaries; while the great sea explorers, many of whom revealed new lands—even new continents—destined to be the homes of millions, received but paltry reward, remained unrecognised and unrequited, or even met with completely unknown ends.
Man and the Sea:
Stages in Maritime and Human Progress. By Dr. J. Holland Rose. Pp. xi + 288 + 25 plates. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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STEVEN, G. Man's Conquest of the Sea. Nature 137, 433–434 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137433a0
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