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A captivating tale spanning 5,000 years of the oceans' history, The Conquest of the Ocean tells the stories of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown.
From the early Polynesians to the first circumnavigations by the Portuguese and the British, these are awe-inspiring tales of epic sea voyages involving great feats of seamanship, navigation, endurance, and ingenuity. Explore the lives and maritime adventures, many with first-person narratives of land seekers and globe charters such as Christopher Columbus, Captain James Cook, and Vitus Bering.
- Sales Rank: #376763 in Books
- Brand: Brand: DK ADULT
- Published on: 2013-08-19
- Released on: 2013-08-19
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.51" h x 1.26" w x 6.38" l, 2.05 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
From School Library Journal
Gr 8 Up–Lavery offers 5000 years of ocean history in this lavishly illustrated and readable work. Although stating that the oceans can never be conquered, he narrates many stories of bravery, perseverance, and greed that resulted in the exploration of unknown worlds. Beginning with the first sailors of Polynesia, the Mediterranean, China, and Arabia, and covering oceangoing activities until modern times, this book has a vast reach. Much of the text consists of first-person narratives, often personal and exciting in the telling of great dangers and adventures. Included are discussions of the great explorations of the New World; the unbelievable travels of the extraordinary 15th-century Chinese seaman Zhen He, covering 30,000 miles in a flotilla totaling 27,000 men; the vast Viking journeys; and the use of naval power as a force for conquest. In the modern era, luxury ocean liners, America's Cup races, and World Wars are reviewed as well as the vast oversea migrations of the 19th century. The voices quoted give substance to the facts and figures outlining victory and loss. Piracy is a constant theme; whether for personal gain or in the employ of monarchs, the oceans were fair game for theft and plunder. Fittingly the last chapter relates to the treacherous Somali pirates of today. Photos, reproductions, diagrams, or maps appear on almost every page. The well-researched and popularly presented text is aided by an ample glossary, bibliography, and index. Useful for research and enjoyable for leisure reading for students interested in naval history, exploration, and adventure.–Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, formerly at Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NYα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
The human story of nautical navigation was, until the Age of Discovery, mostly confined to waters within sight of land. There were exceptions before then, bespeaking bolder souls who ventured over the aqueous horizon: the Polynesians, the Vikings, and the Chinese fleets of Zheng He. Given prominence in this survey history, these groups receive an arresting graphic presentation of maps, images of ships and instruments, and portraits of sailors that support the efficient text, according to a design-template into which the publisher places every topic Lavery sees fit to include. A British museum curator and prolific author of maritime histories, Lavery has a sound sense of how to interest new readers. He accentuates human-interest angles by quoting memoirists who experienced a famous naval battle or shipwreck or by sketching key individuals in the development of technological advances, such as ocean liners, submarines, and containerized shipping. Lavishly illustrating the extension of sea travel to transoceanic dimensions, Lavery’s work ably serves a collection’s need for a general, visually attractive chronicle of ships, sailors, and the sea. --Gilbert Taylor
Review
"[Author Brian] Lavery has a sound sense of how to interest new readers. He accentuates human-interest angles by quoting memoirists who experienced a famous naval battle or shipwreck or by sketching key individuals in the development of technological advances, such as ocean liners, submarines, and containerized shipping. Lavishly illustrating the extension of sea travel to transoceanic dimensions, Lavery's work ably serves a collection's need for a general, visually attractive chronicle of ships, sailors, and the sea." – Booklist
"[A] lavishly illustrated and readable work…Useful for research and enjoyable for leisure reading for students interested in naval history, exploration, and adventure." – School Library Journal
"Lavishly illustrating the extension of sea travel to transoceanic dimensions, [author Brian] Lavery's work ably serves a collection's need for a general, visually attractive chronicle of ships, sailors, and the sea." – Booklist
Most helpful customer reviews
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty But Episodic
By Daniel Weitz
This book is beautifully illustrated with contemporary art and DK's trademark artwork. There are innumerable color illustrations and diagrams of ships; together with very useful custom maps of oceans winds and currents; and which if included in other works are often confusing and hard to follow.
The problem with this work is the text. There are many errors: for example HMS Hood was not sunk off Scapa Flow (page 316); Japanese carriers did not have deck loads of aircraft at Midway when the Americans counter-attacked (page 321). The text itself is episodic; notable for its omissions. There is no discussion of Hellenistic seafaring in the Mediterranean or the Indian Ocean; and oddly enough the entire revolution in the cruising industry, in which arguably more people have sailed than ever before is ignored.
The bibliography, while limited has many useful works, particularly references to original sources.
Far more useful and a delight to read is Brian Fagan's lyricBeyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans. More comprehensive and scholarly is Lincoln Paine's The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Sea Fever
By Robin Friedman
"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky." John Masefield's poem, "Sea Fever", is one of innumerable literary examples of the fascination the sea has exerted over the ages. In his new book, "The Conquest of the Ocean: an Illustrated History of Seafaring" (2013), Brian Lavery offers an accessible history of the relationship between human beings and the ocean. Lavery, Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, has written more than 30 books about seafaring. He also served as a consultant on, among other things, the filming of Patrick O'Brian's novel, "Master and Commander".
"The Conquest of the Ocean" is a glossy book of about 400 pages consisting of Lavery's text together with many illustrations of ships and sea scenes, seafarers, maps, maritime equipment, and more. The illustrations are in color and well reproduced. Lavery's text is clear and accessible to lay readers with maritime terms explained when they are used. Lavery writes with a lifelong enthusiasm for his subject, the most important factor in a historical overview of this type. The book consists of passages of history and of explanations of the oceans and of the technology of understanding the sea together with extended passages of storytelling.For example, Lavery tells the story of Matthew Maury, the first Superintendent of the Depot of Charts and Instruments in Washington, D.C. As a young naval officer riding a stagecoach late at night, Maury offered his seat to a lady and went to the top of the coach. When the coach overturned, Maury broke his leg, ending his naval seagoing career at once. Confined to a desk, Maury began the detailed scientific studies that soon brought him recognition as the founder of the science of oceanography.
The book offers an overview of sea fever beginning with prehistoric times and continuing to the present day. The many subjects covered include the exploration of the sea by different peoples, mapmaking, shipbuilding over the centuries, including sail, steam, submarines, and nuclear power, seafaring and commerce, the era of the slave ship, famous sea battles, sea disasters, the development of the science of oceanography, piracy, luxury ships, yachting, cruising, and more.
The book is arranged in six large chronological followed by a glossary and a brief bibliography. The photos, art, and diagrams are well-integrated with the text. The book includes material that many readers will find familiar in addition to material that will likely be known primarily to students of the sea. There are good discussions of, for example, the Vikings, Christopher Columbus, the Battle of Trafalgar, and the D-Day landings. The final section on "The Global Ocean" includes a treatment of the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Falklands War, among other things. Lavery treats the exploits of John Paul Jones and of the Confederate ship the Alabama during the Civil War. Among other disasters, the book considers extensively the wreck of the Royal Charter off the coast of Wales in 1852.
With the range of coverage, it is unsurprising that some things are left out. England's 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada is covered in a short paragraph. Other lesser-known aspects of the Spanish-English conflict receive fuller treatment. Lavery includes a two-page painting of the sinking of the Titanic but virtually no textual explanation. The book includes a good treatment of commercial whaling but no treatment of Melville or of "Moby-Dick". The book on the whole is devoid of literary references.
The book is written for an informed lay audience more than for readers with a thorough knowledge of the sea and of seafaring. It manages to be informative, absorbing, and highly entertaining. This book will please readers with sea fever -- any kind of yearning for or interest in the sea.
Robin Friedman
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
An excellent book for kids, ages 8-14. The selected topics gives the child an excellent perspective of world history
By Tom Brody
THE CONQUEST OF THE OCEAN by Brian Lavery is a 400-page history book about large boats and ships, beginning with the Egyptian, Greek, Phoenician (now Lebanon), and Viking ships dating from over 2000 years ago, continuing with the voyages of Columbus, with information on the Spanish Armada, details on the expeditions of Matthew C. Perry, the onset of submarines, and finally a few pages on exotic sailboats used in present day racing.
FORMAT. The book has large color illustrations on every other page. The illustrations are all excellent, as is the case with all of the other books published by DK books. Unfortunately, unlike the other DK books, the illustrations in CONQUEST OF THE OCEAN are not on glossy paper. A minor complaint concerns a funky aspect of the graphics. At intervals of every dozen pages or so, one finds that about 15% of the page is taken up by a “newspaper headline” in extremely large font. For example, we find a blazing headline reading: “LONGEST OCEAN CROSSING BY POLYNESIAN EXPLORERS=2,000 MILES” (page 16). Also we find, “TOTAL DEATHS FORM THE BATAVIA=220” (page 131). Also, we find, “DISTANCE OF MAGELLAN’S VOYAGE=37,560 MILES” (page 90). This sort of thing is sometimes found in magazine articles, where the goal apparently is to draw the reader into a particular article. However, in the context of a book, where the reader already has decided to read the entire book, this sort of thing is manneristic and annoying. In my opinion, DK Books needs to fire the editor who came up with these bizarre headlines.
CHAPTERS. There are six chapters, each chapter containing a dozen or so different topics:
(1) The first ocean sailors, to 1450.
(2) The age of exploration, 1450-1600.
(3) The age of empire, 1600-1815.
(4) Steam and emigration, 1815-1914.
(5) The wards on the oceans, 1914-1945.
(6) The global ocean, 1945-present.
DETAILS. The following discloses the material from a handful of the topics of this book. Each topic takes up about 5-6 pages in the book. Succeeding topics are totally different from each other, for example, hopping from one explorer to another explorer, or hopping from the topic of Chinese explorers to the topic of Arabian explorers.
CHINESE SAILING. We learn that the compass originate din China, and that the technology of the compass was transferred to the Arabs in the 13th century (pages 43-45). Pages 46-51 concern Zheng He, who commanded naval expeditions during the MING DYNASTY. His main goal under Emperor Chengzu was to establish shipping routes. Page 48 has picture of one of Zheng He’s 330-foot long ships. We learn that Zheng He sailed to Vietnam, Sumatra, Sri Lanka, and Hormuz.
MEXICO. Pages 94-103 disclose the conquest of Mexico. We learn that Cortes arrived at Tabasco with 100 sailors, 508 soldiers, and that the Aztecs gave him gold and 20 women, including the chief’s daughter, Dona Marina. We learn that Cortes introduced the Aztecs to horses and guns. We learn that some of Cortes’ men conspired to mutiny, and that Cortes had their leaders hanged, and the rest whipped. We read that the Aztecs did not have iron, or the wheel, or any written language. We learn of an 85 day siege, where Cortes captured Tenochtitlan, and conquered the Aztecs, and built Mexico City in its place.
SUBMARINES. Pages 258-265 concern early submarines. We read about John Holland’s ship, the FENIAN RAM, which was the first submarine that was designed, not only to sink, but also to float back up. FENIAN RAM had a gasoline engine, which was smaller than a steam engine. John Holland’s fifth submarine was THE PLUNGER, which as 85 feet long, but it was never launched. His next submarine was HOLLAND VI, which had an electric motor, and thus did not need air for burning fuel. We learn of the hardships of submariners at the time, e.g., the fact that clothes could not be dried in the submerged submarine, the fact that fires were not permitted, that bathing was not possible, the irritation caused by engine noise, and that the smell inside the submarine was horrible.
CONCLUSION. CONQUEST OF THE OCEAN makes excellent reading for kids between the ages of 8-14. This book enables the child to “learn what is out there” in the world. The writing is enticing, and does not include writing that is puffy or decorative. Aside from the bizarre newspaper headlines, the graphics and presentation in this book are excellent. For any child who reads this book, the information is likely to inspire additional readings in more detailed books that focus on one particular era of history, or that dwell more intensely on one particular technology.
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