ÉPUISÉ - Facing the Ocean - The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500, 2004, 608 p., nbr. ill., br. -

The people living along the Atlantic façade of Europe have usually been regarded as peripheral to the main stream of European development. But this is not so. Facing the Ocean explores the identity and remarkable achievements of generations of these communities from the time of the early hunter-gatherers of 8,000 BC to the explorers of the fifteenth century AD who first ventured across the ocean.