About the Author

Larrie D. Ferreiro is a naval architect and historian who served for more than thirty-five years in the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, and the Department of Defense. An Adjunct Professor of Engineering and History at George Mason University, he is the author of the award-winning Ships and Science (MIT Press) and Brothers in Arms, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in History.

Reviews

Winner of the 2021 John Lyman Award in the Naval and Maritime Science and Technology

"Bridging the Seas is a brilliant, exceptionally well-researched and written account of how the science of building ships transformed not only the maritime world, but also human society first connected globally by those ships. Bridging the Seas is destined to be the standard reference on the subject—and a classic."—James P. Delgado, PhD, archaeologist, undersea explorer, and author

"Bridging the Seas completes a major intellectual achievement, one that has given modern naval architecture a history worthy of the discipline, and equips all those who study the human engagement with the sea the tools they need to understand the ship, the most significant artifact in that relationship, as engineering, design, inspiration, and culture. We are all in Larrie Ferreiro's debt."—Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, Kings College London