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96/231 The Evolution of the Sailing Ship 1250-1580 Edited by Basil Greenhill Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, 264 pp., ISBN 0-85177-655-8, L20, (Keynote Studies from the Mariner's Mirror series)
Everyone with a serious interest in the history of ships will know of the Mariner's Mirror, the journal of the Society for Nautical Research, which has been published since 1911. They will also know that the earlier volumes are difficult to come by. The Society has therefore decided to publish a series of anthologies, each on a different theme, drawn from the volumes issued in 1911-20. In many cases, the first article on a subject called forth responses, either as complete articles or as short queries and replies (which are still a...