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Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th-20th Centuries): 19th-20th Centuries

Name: Aegean Sponge Fishing and the Island of Kalymnos (19th-20th Centuries): 19th-20th Centuries
Brand: Brill
SKU: 9789004701939
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Contributors:

Evdokia Olympitou, Joyce Goggin (Editor)

Publisher:

Brill

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History

Book Subcategory:

Military

Book Topic:

Naval

Series:

Brill's Studies in Maritime History #17

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Release Date:

2024-10-04

ISBN 13:

9789004701939

Weight:

1.68 lbs

Size:

9.45 x 6.37 x 1.15 inches

Pages:

436

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This is the story of an Aegean island and its people that prospered from sponge fishing. Meticulously researched, the book reveals Kalymnos's prevalence in the business, profession and culture of sponge fishing, and its global commercial network. It analyses the fishing practices, the shipowners, the seamen, the women "tough as men", the divers that risked paralysis or death from decompression disease, something acceptable in the community, like the acceptance of danger in warrior societies.