The Man Who Thought like a Ship (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series)
Language: English
Published by Texas A&M University Press, 2012
Series: Book 6 of 18 - Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology
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- Title
- The Man Who Thought like a Ship (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series)
- Author
- Steffy, Loren C.
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1603446648
- ISBN 13
- 9781603446648
- Item weight
- 590 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.51 centimeters width by 24.13 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 6 of 18: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology
He had volunteered for the job even though he had no qualifications for it. For twenty-five years he’d been an electrician in a small, land-locked town in Pennsylvania. He held no advanced degrees―his understanding of ships was entirely self-taught. Yet he would find himself half a world away from his home town, planning to reassemble a ship that last sailed during the reign of Alexander the Great, and he planned to do it using mathematical formulas and modeling techniques that he’d developed in his basement as a hobby.
The first person ever to reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, Steffy said ships spoke to him. Steffy joined a team, including friend and fellow scholar George Bass, that laid a foundation for the field of nautical archaeology. Eventually moving to Texas A&M University, his lack of the usual academic credentials caused him to be initially viewed with skepticism by the university’s administration. However, his impressive record of publications and his skilled teaching eventually led to his being named a full professor. During the next thirty years of study, reconstruction, and modeling of submerged wrecks, Steffy would win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and would train most of the preeminent scholars in the emerging field of nautical archaeology.
Richard Steffy’s son Loren, an accomplished journalist, has mined family memories, archives at Texas A&M and elsewhere, his father’s papers, and interviews with former colleagues to craft not only a professional biography and adventure story of the highest caliber, but also the first history of a field that continues to harvest important new discoveries from the depths of the world’s oceans.
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