The Great Museum of the Sea
A Human History of Shipwrecks
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197780756
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 236x165x38 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 45 642
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Short description:
In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the reader on a personal tour of the world of shipwrecks, including many of the more than one hundred lost ships he has personally discovered, investigated, excavated and shared in print and on screen. In these pages, Delgado explains why people care about shipwrecks--and why we have incorporated the concept of a shipwreck, and shipwrecks themselves, into our religions and cultures since the earliest civilizations.
MoreLong description:
An immersive dive into the meaning and mystique of shipwrecks
The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more recent history. Some are famous, others obscure and unremembered but each has a story to tell.
In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the reader on a personal tour of the world's wrecks, including many of the more than a hundred lost ships he has personally discovered and investigated, including Titanic, USS Arizona, and the slave ship Clotilda. The Great Museum of the Sea vividly explains how and why ships experience catastrophe at sea, and why their remains have captured our imagination for millennia.
Shipwrecks engage us in many ways--we treat them as tombs, but also recover them for museums and memorials, and salvage them for treasure. Authoritative and informed by decades of shipwreck expeditions, Delgado's account offers an insider's perspective, taking the reader into the deep and behind the scenes.
[A]n encyclopedic but engaging history of all things related to ships, sailors and their sometimes disastrous ends... Like a museum curator who walks you through an art collection and shows you more than the brush strokes on a canvas, Mr. Delgado explains that shipwrecks are not simply remnants of ancient vessels.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter One: Ship Wrecks
Chapter Two: Shipwrecks as Muses
Chapter Three: Shipwrecks as Historical Sites, Graves, and Memorials
Chapter Four: Refugia, Romance, and Aesthetics
Chapter Five: Economic Values of Shipwrecks
Chapter Six: Shipwreck Archaeology
Chapter Seven: Conflicting Values/Conflicting Needs
Chapter Eight: Shipwreck Issues
Conclusion: Shipwrecks in the 21st Century
