| Description |
352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Bloomsbury sigma |
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Bloomsbury sigma series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The traces of much of human history - and that which preceded it - lie beneath the ocean surface. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused on in recent decades. This is the first book to present the science of submergence in a popular format. Patrick Nunn sifts the fact from the fiction, using the most up-to-date research to work out which submerged places may have actually existed versus those that probably only exist in myth. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Worlds in shadow -- Recently drowned lands -- At the nexus of science and memory -- Red herrings -- Hidden depths -- Deep in shadow -- Earth's watery shroud -- 'The island tilts... the tourists go mad' -- Falling apart -- 'Huge and mighty hilles of water' -- Volcanic islands -- Slipping into the shadows -- Out of the shadows. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Ancient.
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Lost continents.
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Underwater archaeology.
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Civilization, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst00862946
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Lost continents. (OCoLC)fst01002653
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Underwater archaeology. (OCoLC)fst01161071
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781472983497 |
| ISBN |
1472983475 hardback |
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9781472983473 hardback |
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9781472983497 (ePub ebook) |
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9781472983480 |
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1472983483 |
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