The Sea and Civilization Quotes

“Travel by water was often faster, smoother, more efficient, and in many circumstances safer and more convenient than overland travel, which presents obstacles and threats from animals, people, terrain, and even the conventions and institutions of shoreside society.”
― Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

“The dramatic tides of the Atlantic coast and English Channel—up to 4.5 meters at Quiberon and 16 meters at Mont St. Michel, compared with maximums of less than 1 meter in the Mediterranean—always impressed Mediterranean sailors, and Pytheas apparently discussed them at length.”
― Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

“The glass cullet carried as ballast suggests that the ship was en route from a Syrian port with a local glassblowing industry to Constantinople, probably the foremost glassmaking center in the world. Apart from the cullet, the site yielded eighty pieces of intact cups and other glassware not intended for recycling.”
― Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

“From Arawaks he later met on Hispaniola (the island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) he learned of other people to the south, whom the Spanish called the Cariba or Caniba, from which we get the words “Caribbean” and “cannibal.”
― Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World