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From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery and endurance aboard HMS Gairsoppa in World War Two, these are the stories of some of the greatest underwater discoveries of all time. A rich and exciting narrative, this is not just the story of those ships and the people who sailed on them, the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate. This is also the story of the spread of people, religion and ideas around the world, a story of colonialism and migration which continues today. \n\nDrawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, renowned maritime archaeologist David Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past to tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.
David Gibbins is the author of eleven novels that have sold over three million copies in thirty languages. He has been on both the New York Times and the London Sunday Times top-ten bestseller lists, and his international success includes having being Newsweek number one bestseller in Poland. He has written nine novels in his Jack Howard series of archaeological adventures as well as two novels in his Total War series set in the ancient world. David has a PhD in archaeology from Cambridge University, is a passionate diver and derives much of the inspiration for his novels from the many expeditions he has led around the world to investigate historic shipwrecks and other sites. His awards have included a Fellowship and Medallion from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
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