About the book
Mensun Bound was Director of Exploration on the expedition that found Shackleton's Endurance under the Weddell Sea ice in 2022, and has spent a career excavating wrecks around the world. Here, with the journalist Mark Frary, he uses objects raised from those wrecks - Phoenician figurines, Corinthian helmets, Spanish gold, a Chinese porcelain dish, a Nazi eagle, Shackleton's bible - to tell a history of seafaring from 3000 BCE to the present.
Each chapter is built around a wreck and the things found in it, and what they say about the people who sailed with them.
Notes
To come.