James P. Delgado
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Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines archaeological excavations of the watercraft of ancient Native Americans and what the findings tell us about the daily life and culture of people who lived thousands of years ago.
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English
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Underwater exploration is increasingly discovering long-lost warships from the deepest parts of the ocean, revealing a vast undersea museum that speaks to battles won and lost, service, sacrifice, and the human costs of warfare.
War at Sea is a dramatic global tour of this remote museum and other formerly lost traces of humanity's naval heritage. It is also an account by the world's leading naval archaeologist of how underwater exploration has discovered...
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English
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The greatest controversy in the history of the US Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the US brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his coconspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea.
The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives,...
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English
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Tensions between salvors and archaeologists. Questions of what archaeology can contribute beyond the documentary record. These are debates that have bedeviled maritime archaeology for more than half a century. Wreck Divers and Archaeologists tackles these issues. It illustrates the progression of maritime archaeology from divers looking for treasure to both a scientific understanding of the past and a legal structure for historic preservation.
This...