Product Description: From the foreword: "In the 21st century the division between the maritime and terrestrial worlds has virtually disappeared. Events and issues that previously involved only maritime subjects need to be reexamined today from the perspective of those events and developments occurring simultaneously ashore...read more

Product Description: 2002, 1st oversized trade paperback edition, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Truly glorious, oversized, extra-large volume, 76 pages. Magnificent reproduction of pistols, ships, leg irons, maritime artifacts, charts, full-dress uniforms, sailor's chests, propellers, wooden models, travel posters, everything and anything from the sea, including, believe it or not, a champagne chiller...read more

Product Description: Features 103 early b&w maritime images never or rarely exhibited before from the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA). Includes an introduction on photographing the ocean. The index contains brief biographies of the photographers. 9x11...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)