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A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks by Stewart Gordon (For e E dge; University Press ofNew England, Lebanon, N H , 2015, 225pp, notes, index, ISBN 9781-61168-540-4; $29.95 hc) It is a testament to the ubiquity of seafa ring and nautical endeavors in human history that Stewart Gordon can, starting nearly 6000 BCE, take the reader on a journey all the way into the present day using maritime ac tivity as the common thread. Combined the sixteen vignettes p rovide a thoughtful synthesis of archaeological, historical, economic, cultural, and geographical information into a narrative both captivating and fund a me ntally critical for understanding our human pas t, a reminder that water co nn ects-not dividescivilizations. Though the tide m ay indicate a particularisti c review of individual a rchaeological sites, Gordon instead uses these
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