Under the Mediterranean : marine antiquities / / Honor Frost

• Autore: Frost Honor
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] : , : Honor Frost Foundation, , 1963; ©1963
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 797.23
• Soggetto topico: Deep diving; Shipwrecks - Mediterranean Sea
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction; Acknowledgements; Map,; PART I: INITIATION CEREMONIES; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; PART II: ANCHORS AND ANCHORAGES; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; PART III: PORTS; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; PART IV: WRECKS; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; PART V: SPONGE DIVERS AND ANOTHERANCIENT TRADE; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; PART VI: ROMAN WOOD UNDER THE SEA-BED; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Appendix; Glossary of Turkish words; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Honor Frost has written a travel book with this difference: her journeys have extended below the surface of the sea. Her accounts of these regions can be compared with the writings of early travellers who, unhampered by overspecialization, recorded a variety of observations on completely unknown places. In setting down her direct experience she has thrown new light on the much discussed submect of underwater archaeology.This book contains 22 colour and 28 monochrome photographs by well known divers, also 52 plans and drawings by the author illustrating her arguments. It is addressed to travell
• Titolo autorizzato: Under the Mediterranean
• ISBN: 1-78297-961-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460994803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II