(. . .) In the endeavour to preserve, study and promote Greek maritime history and tradition - which our museum has been actively pursuing for over twenty years, with the Aegean, the cradle of seafaring, as its base - we decided to sketch the course of Greek shipping from its beginnings to the present day. The result is the book `100 CENTURIES AT SEA`, in the writing of which our guide was not so much the duration and significance of each historical age as those events and developments that set their seal on the sector of navigation and shipbuilding in the particular period. (. . .)
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