topics. As curator emeritus of the N ational Maritime Museum in Greenwich, he spent a career developing an expertise on the material culture of seafaring and then learning the history to which they are attached. In this, his most recent book, we get what you would expect with a tide such as this-broad coverage of the history of the world told through a maritime lens, sprinkled with specific stories, facts and figures , and well-thought-out illustrations and maps. For the learned maritime histori an or well-read maritime history buff, there is nothing in this book you do not already have a book about in yo ur library. For the mildly curious or novice m aritime enthusiast, this book is a great place to start. You'll learn about how the Polynesians navigated across thousands of miles of open ocean to populate and visit the remote islands in the Pacific, more than 2,5 00 years before Captain Cook made his way out there. You' ll learn about Columbus, of course, but also in the context of the Vikings' "discovery" of North America and the voyages of Zheng He's Beer of 100 ships across the Indian Ocean in the 1400s.
Lavery steers his course through the big topics in maritime history such as colonization across the Atlantic, the slave trade, commerce, fishing, war at sea, whaling, and naval and commercial activity into the twentieth century. The naval history of World War II is covered through a brief discuss ion of the Bartle of the Atlantic and the Bartle of Midway and D-Day. There is not much mention of military action at sea beyond that era, but he rounds out his coverage of the 20th century with short chapters on yacht racing and underwater exploration. For its intent, the book is nicely produced with high-quality illustrations and would be a great selection for either quick reference or general interest. It is a book you can pick up and put down again, over and over. MARTIN PERRY
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Hold Fast: Tom Crean with Shackleton's Endurance Expedition, 1913-1916 by David Hirzel (Terra Nova Press, Pacifica, CA, 201 3, 30lpp, appen, gloss, biblio, ISBN 978-1-4825-3079-7; $18.50pb)
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Even those who know little of maritime history have heard of the great Antarctic explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, and Roald Amundsen, but few would recognize the name Tom Crean, the man who spent more time at the bottom of the world on these polar expeditions than any of the famous leaders individually. Shackleton admitted he could not have survived without him. And even for Scott, who ultimately perished on the ice, it was Crean who persisted through extreme hardship to get a rescue party to go back for the surviving but desperate members of the team. And it was again Crea n who went back out on to the ice to find, not only Scott's remains, but importantly, the records of their expedition. Without him, no one would know their names and the story of their expeditions today. In Hold Fast, author David Hirzel continues the story of the burly Irishman Tom Crean at sea and on the ice as he sets off with Ernest Shackleton on their doomed but heroic expedition to the South Pole aboard the ship Endurance in 1913. Hirzel is a man somewhat obsessed
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