Men who dared the sea: The ocean adventures of the ancient mariners

This is the story of the men who started on the voyages that led to oceanography, the earliest sailors, of the Stone Age, of the Bronze Age, in the ships of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, northern Europeans, Asians. Why did they go to sea? How did they do it? How did they navigate? What were their ships like? Who helped them? How far from home could they go and with what results?