The Boundless Sea

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2020, a Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times and BBC History Magazine Book of The Year. For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples – for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce.

This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world’s greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers.