Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Within Europe' builds on Professor Seán McGrail's 2006 volume 'Ancient Boats and Ships' by delving deeper into the construction and use of boats and ships between the stone age and AD1500 in order to provide up to date information. Regions covered will include the Mediterranean and Atlantic Europe.

This interesting volume is easily accessible to those with little t no knowledge of the building and ises of boats, whether ancient or modern. Seán McGrail introduces the reader to this relatively new discipline through the theory and techniques used in the study of early boats as well as the many different types of evidence available to us, including archaeological, documentary, iconographic, experimental and ethnographic, and the natural, physical laws.

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This is a shorter book than the other volume on boats and seafaring beyond Europe. It discusses Atlantic Europe. Mediterranean Europe and has a long first chapter on concepts and techniques.

The most useful chapter is on concepts and techniques. This book is not exactly a history of early boats. It's written for archaeologists and people interested in the field, and some of the techniques are for archaeological investigators to give them a better idea of what they might have found, The explanation of how boats were built and used is quite good and will assist anyone interested in early boats and navigation. It also gets rather technical in several spots, such as describing design of hulls with formulas apparently used by naval designers. Even these early boats chopped out by axe, adze and fire were surprisingly sophisticated craft, implying a building and using culture wise in matters of using craft on waters.

The two chapters on Europe are fairly brief, although useful. Most readers will find the first chapter of most interest.

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