Alan G. Jamieson is a researcher and writer based in Alberta, Canada. His books include the novel Crossroads of the Years (2008) and Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs (Reaktion, 2012).
Jamieson offers concise, accessible coverage of many important shipwrecks through time, whether or not they have been located. This book is more than encyclopedic, because for some wrecks he presents many more details about the people involved, to remind the reader that there are tragic personal stories behind each of the hundreds of thousands of shipwrecks throughout history. --Warren Riess, University of Maine