Book Review: Sailing into the Past: Learning from Replica Ships by Jenny Bennett (ed)

• Main Author: Roeland P Paardekooper
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EXARC 2012-01-01
• Series: EXARC Journal
• Subjects: review; boat / ship; wood working; experience; roman era; viking age; early middle ages; late middle ages; newer era; newest era; australia; brazil; canada; cyprus; denmark; egypt; finland; france; germany; greece; greenland; indonesia; ireland; italy; japan; norway; poland; south africa; spain; sweden; the netherlands; united kingdom; usa; book
• Online Access: https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10023
• ISSN: 2212-8956

There must be hundreds of wooden ship replicas across the world, not only the ‘Viking ships’ in Scandinavia, but – as the book Sailing into the past shows, there are many medieval and more recent ones. Just search on the internet and you will find some which are built for tourism , education, or a hobby which has became more serious. It is one of the most popular fields in experimental archaeology too. Some ships take a single archaeological find as example, others are built following the tradition of a specific type of ship, such as the medieval cog like vessels from the Hanse area.