CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| List of Illustrations | [xi] | |
| I. | Introduction | [1] |
| II. | The Birth of the Nautical Arts | [10] |
| III. | The Development of the Marine Instinct | [18] |
| IV. | Mediterranean Progress | [29] |
| V. | Rome and the Sea | [56] |
| VI. | The Viking Mariners | [85] |
| VII. | Seamanship and Navigation in the Middle Ages | [114] |
| VIII. | The Period of Columbus | [150] |
| IX. | The Early Tudor Period | [169] |
| X. | The Elizabethan Age | [186] |
| XI. | The Seventeenth Century | [221] |
| XII. | The Eighteenth Century | [249] |
| XIII. | The Nineteenth Century | [274] |
| Glossary | [291] | |
| Index | [293] |