Alan Judd

Civilisation’s watery superhighway

A review of Lincoln Paine’s The Sea and Civilization. A learned and deeply researched global view of maritime history

The Vikings arrive in England during the second wave of migration (Scandinavian school, 10th century)

  • The Sea and Civilization

    Lincoln Paine

    Atlantic Books, pp. 744

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