The Vasa: The Royal Ship

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Atlantis, 1998 - Antiquities - 172 pages
The Vasa sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. This book is a description of the salvage operations, what was found, the process of reconstructing the ship, and it's display in its own museum in Stockholm.

About the author (1998)

Joan Tate (September 23, 1922 - June 6, 2000) was a prolific translator, translating works by many leading Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish writers into English. Tate's translations from the Swedish include books by Astrid Lindgren, Ingmar Bergman, Britt Ekland, Kerstin Ekman, P C Jersild, Sven Lindqvist, Agneta Pleijel, and the team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. She also translated works from Norwegian and Danish, for a total of around 200 books during her career.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Vasa: The Royal Ship
AuthorsLars-Åke Kvarning, Bengt Ohrelius
Translated byJoan Tate
Edition4, illustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherAtlantis, 1998
ISBN9174865811, 9789174865813
Length172 pages
  
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