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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

With thanks to: Ann Fullick for expert science advice Maps and diagrams by: Peter Bull pp.3, 12, 13, 17, 23

The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: AKG-Images pp.9 (Vasca da Gama/akg), 9 (map/akg), 11 (Painting of cod fishing/akg), 27 (Mutiny on the bounty/akg); Alamy Images pp.5 (Polynesian voyaging canoe/Photo Resource Hawaii), 7 (North Wind Picture Archives/Sinbad and his companions), 26 (Oceanographer/Bruce Miller); Ardea p.16 (Hagfish/Pat Morris); Corbis pp.1 (View of Pacific Ocean/Bloomimage), 2 (Yacht sailing/Reed Kaestner), 8 (Oseberg Longship/Jose Fuste Raga), 10 (The largest containership in the world/Vincent Jannink), 19 (King Canute Holding Back the