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]