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Watchung Booksellers Author Event - Lincoln Paine, "The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World"

Please join us at Watchung Booksellers for an exciting event featuring Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World!

This tremendously readable intellectual adventure shows us the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. We find out how a once-enslaved East African king brought Islam to his people, what the American "sail-around territories" were, and what the Song Dynasty did with twenty-wheel, human-powered paddleboats with crews of up to three hundred men! Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.

Lincoln Paine is the author of four books and more than fifty articles, reviews, and lectures on various aspects of maritime history. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife. 

For more information please contact us by email at info@watchungbooksellers.com or by phone at 973 744 7177.

We hope to see you there!

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