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The great museum of the sea: A human history of shipwrecks
Delgado, J.P. (2025). The great museum of the sea: A human history of shipwrecks. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780197780756. 328 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197780756.001.0001
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    VLIZ: Archaeology [106940]
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    Archeology
    Exploration
    Shipwrecks
Author keywords
     shipwreck, maritime disaster, treasure, graveyard, undersea museum, music, art, literature
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  • Delgado, J.P.
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Abstract
    What is a shipwreck? That question has driven James Delgado to explore, find, dive, and study shipwrecks around the globe for the past five decades. A shipwreck is more than a word or a concept. As a word, a “shipwreck” is powerful, evoking many images and human reactions. Writing from the perspectives of an archaeologist, seafaring historian, ocean explorer, journalist, museum director, and television host, James Delgado has found in his study of a shipwreck, and of shipwrecks the focus of much of his career. For him, a shipwreck is an entity; a lost or abandoned structure, either intact or in pieces. It is also an event that focuses the attention of society, which then expresses that attention through actions like stories, music, art, and film. In The Great Museum of the Sea, he shares what hundreds of wrecks spanning thousands of years and the world’s oceans, lakes, and rivers, as well as skeletons that emerge from storm-tossed beaches or from now-buried harbors and waterfronts of the past, have taught him, and why shipwrecks are a universal human story that has meaning and value beyond the concept of a battered, or sunken hulk in the depths.
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