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

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.